/snarf' n-barf`/ Under a WIMP environment, the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a mainstream expression for an "eat now, regret IT later" cheap restaurant expedITion. [Jargon File] (1994-11-04)