snackcident

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A form of snaccident — A snack accident; an instance of a snack being eaten accidentally.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounsnackcident (countable and uncountable, plural snackcidents)

plural snackcidents

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of snaccident.

    By planning your diet, those dreaded ‘snackcidents’ are also curbed.

    2017 September, Caroline Gray, editor, Easy Food, number 124, Zahra Publishing Ltd, →ISSN
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    Before the first commercial, your spoon is scraping the bottom of the ice-cream container. Oops! You’ve just had a “snackcident.” […] Forethought can help you enjoy the benefits of snacking wisely and avoid the shame of a “snackcident,” dietitians Melinda Johnson and Felicia Stoler say.

    2005 November 29, Connie Midey, “Have a snack plan: Keep healthful foods on hand to satisfy the munchies”, in The Arizona Republic, 116th year, number 195, Phoenix, Ariz., page E3, column 2

    Thus LesserEvil snacks describe themselves as being “the antidote to snackcidents.” What is a snackcident? The company helpfully defines it for you: Snack • ci • dent [snǎk-si-duh nt] n. 1. The consumption of a snack that leaves you unsatisfied and/or remorseful

    2009, Adam Morgan, “Monsters and Other Challenges: Gaining Clarity on the Center”, in Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, part 2 (The Eight Credos of Successful Challenger Brands), pages 68–69

    “Um, would someone like to tell me what’s going on here?” I asked as I plopped down on a matching suede club chair and held my breath so I couldn’t smell the cookies and risk triggering a snackcident.

    2009, Robin Palmer, “Dylan”, in Geek Charming, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 48

    She was a little on the chubby side but she wasn’t bothered. Snackcidents were going to happen when she worked in an ice cream cabin and constantly argued that she was bound to eat the odd scoop of napoleon and drink half a bottle of strawberry sauce every now and then.

    2012, Michael Coupland, chapter 3, in The Dentist and the Octopus, Lightwood Books, →ISBN, page 31
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