1 to make a loud sound by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show that you are angry or amused:
[V] to snort with laughter / annoyance * She snorted in disgust. * The horse snorted and tossed its head. * [Vspeech] 'You!' he snorted contemptuously.
2 [VN] (slang) to take drugs by breathing them in through the nose:
to snort cocaine
Part of speech: noun
1 a loud sound that you make by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show that you are angry or amused:
to give a snort of disgust / laughter / derision * I could hear the snort and stamp of a horse.
2 (slang) a small amount of a drug that is breathed in through the nose; an act of taking a drug in this way:
to take a snort of cocaine
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