Snark

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Snark may refer to:

  • Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
  • Snarks, nickname for the Zn'rx (a fictional race appearing in comics published by Marvel Comics)
  • Snark Inc.: A Corporate Fable, a Dr. Seuss-style children's book by Brian Gage
  • Snark (graph theory), a type of graph
  • SM-62 Snark, an intercontinental nuclear cruise missile
  • Snark sailboat, a small, inexpensive, and lightweight sailboat
  • The Cruise of the Snark, a novel by Jack London depicting the voyage of the Snark, a boat built to London's specifications, on which he lived from 1906 to 1908
  • MV The Second Snark, a historic shipyard tender, now in service as a cruise boat and ferry
  • Corporal Snark, a minor character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
  • Snark (punctuation), a proposed ligature to be adopted as an English Language Irony Mark.
  • Snark (computer jargon), in computer jargon a system failure; see also snivitz
  • Snark (speech), a style of speech/writing that could loosely be described as "snidely derisive"
  • Snark (Half-Life), a small, fictional bug-like species of alien used as a weapon in the computer game Half-Life
  • Snark (game), an early 1970s text-based computer game from People's Computer Company
  • Snark (diving regulator), a tradename for an early single-hose diving regulator
  • Snark (sound effect), a mix between a snort and a snicker used in comics
  • Snark (slang), an expression of surprise or annoyance as in "What the snark?"