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snap


to have a joke bounce back on you: He totally snapped you there.

Contributor's comments: I worked at BHP Newcastle in the late 60s and the fitters and turners referred to their lunch as "snap" and the box they carried it in as a "snap tin". But a lot of them were Poms so it might have been a borrowing.