Snark

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Snark may refer to:

• Snark, speech or writing loosely characterized as "snidely derisive." See Wiktionary.
• Snark, a fictional animal in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
• The Hunting of the Snark, musical written by Mike Batt, based on Lewis Carroll's poem
• 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 (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?"
• In Marvel Comics, "Snark" is a nickname given to a reptilian alien race whose proper name, Zn'rx, is unpronounceable by certain other sentient species.
• In an early draft for the movie Alien, the ship ("Nostromo" in the final draft) is referred to as the "Snark".