happer
Meanings
Verb
1. to snatch by the mouth, to snap up (typically of animals) (transitive)
2. to grab, to seize (figurative, figuratively, transitive)
3. to strike forcefully (colloquial, transitive)
4. to catch off guard; take by surprise (colloquial, transitive)
Examples3
On lui jeta un os, et il le happa.
They threw it a bone, and it snapped it up.
Il a été happé par une automobile et tué sur le coup.
He was hit by a car and killed on the spot.
Un requin happa la jambe de l'homme.
A shark snapped the man's leg off.