snap streak

noun

A feature on the social media app Snapchat that tracks how many consecutive days a user and their friend have exchanged photo or video messages ("Snaps") with each other.

Meanings

snap streak1

nounsnap streak (plural snap streaks)

plural snap streaks

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Snap Streak.

Snap Streak2

nounSnap Streak (plural Snap Streaks)

plural Snap Streaks · alternative Snapstreak · alternative snap streak

  1. Internetsocial mediaA feature on the social media app Snapchat that tracks how many consecutive days a user and their friend have exchanged photo or video messages ("Snaps") with each other.

    Streaks became what separated my "real" friends from the rest of my contacts on the app. I had to maintain snap streaks not because my friends or I wanted to, but because letting it disappear would see that physical quantification of our friendship fall back down to zero.

    2017 August 12, Nick Vega, “I just lost a 159-day Snapchat streak and I couldn't be happier”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2018

Origin

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APA

snap streak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snap%20streak

MLA

“snap streak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snap%20streak. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snap streak,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snap%20streak.

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