snort. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

snort

PRONUNCIATION:	snôrt
NOUN:	1a. A rough, noisy sound made by breathing forcefully through the nostrils, as a horse or pig does. b. A similar sound: the snort of a steam engine. 2. Slang a. A drink of liquor, especially when swallowed in one gulp. b. Cocaine or heroin, especially a small amount sniffed at one time. c. The liquor or drug so taken.
VERB:	Inflected forms: snort·ed, snort·ing, snorts
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1a. To breathe noisily and forcefully through the nostrils. b. To make a sound resembling noisy exhalation: “The wind snorted across the Kansas plains” (Gail Sheehy). 2. To make an abrupt noise expressive of scorn, ridicule, or contempt. 3. Slang To ingest a drug, such as cocaine or heroin, by sniffing.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To express by snorting: He snorted his disapproval. 2. Slang To ingest by sniffing: snorted cocaine.
ETYMOLOGY:	From Middle English snorten, to snort, from fnorten, variant of fnoren. See snore.
OTHER FORMS:	snorter —NOUN


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