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| bagel |
A bagel is something that people often eat for breakfast, lunch, or as a snack. A bagel is a thick roll in the shape of a ring. It is not usually sweet, and it is chewy when you eat it. Bagels are sometimes covered with seeds, bits of onions, or salt. |
| bar1 |
A bar is a place where adults sometimes have drinks such as beer or wine. In a bar, there is a long counter where people can sit and get drinks. A bar also serves snacks and sometimes other simple foods. Other types of places with a counter sometimes use the word bar in their name. You can get snacks at a snack bar or ice cream at a dairy bar, for example. [1/6 definitions] |
| bite |
a quick meal; snack. [1/10 definitions] |
| chip1 |
a very thin slice of food that has been baked or fried until crisp. Chips are often eaten as a snack. [1/6 definitions] |
| cookie |
A cookie is a sweet baked food that you hold in your hand to eat. A cookie is usually round, and it is flat or shaped like a ball. We eat cookies as a snack. Cookies are made with flour and sugar, oil or butter, and other things. Some cookies have things like chocolate or nuts in them. |
| cracker |
A cracker is a baked food made with flour, oil, water, and salt. It is thin and crisp and often eaten as a snack. It is a little like a flat cookie, but it is not usually sweet. |
| granola |
a dry mixture of ingredients such as grains, raisins, nuts, and honey. It is eaten as a snack or breakfast cereal. |
| junk food |
snack food that does not give the body many nutrients. Junk food usually contains a great deal of fat or sugar. |
| let |
If you say to your friend, "Let's go," you are requesting that the two of you go now. Your feeling is that you want to go and you are making a request that your friend go too. We make a lot of requests like this. We say things like "Let's play a game, "Let's go to a movie," "Let's get a snack," or "Let's sit down." "Let's" is a short way of saying and writing "let us." [1/3 definitions] |
| peanut |
A peanut is a seed that grows under the ground. It grows inside a shell called a "pod." People eat peanuts in many different ways. Americans usually eat roasted and salted peanuts as a snack, or they eat peanuts in peanut butter. In Africa and Asia, peanuts are often eaten in soups and sauces. |
| popcorn |
the popped kernels of corn that are eaten as a snack food. [1/2 definitions] |
| samosa |
A samosa is a kind of fried food that comes from India. A typical samosa is made with boiled potatoes, green peas, and spices wrapped in a thin dough made from wheat flour. The whole samosa is fried in oil. Samosas are very popular as an appetizer or snack. |
| snack |
to eat a quick, light meal between meals; have a snack. [1/3 definitions] |
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