Snap"shot` (?), n.

1. Commonly Snap shot.

(a)

A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.

(b) (Photog.)

Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).

2.

An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.

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