snap-on

[ snap-on, -awn ]

adjective

1. attached or fitting into place by means of a snap or with a pressing motion:

   snap-on bottle tops.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snap-on¹

First recorded in 1920–25; adj. use of verb phrase snap on

Example Sentences

“But you have the litter box we bought you right here, with the snap-on lid and everything!”

From Literature

Some other brands have created snap-on adapters to give or sell to their customers for Supercharger access.

From Los Angeles Times

Someone at the start of a promising career in journalism who is so aggressively flattering and greasily evasive, with a snap-on, snakelike, aw-shucks smile, has got to have a scheme up his sleeve.

From New York Times

It works with an external battery pack that has a two-hour capacity and connects to the device through a snap-on cable.

From Reuters

It’s not great at everything it does — the OS is sluggish and the snap-on webcam is pretty so-so — but it could be a good buy if you want to save space and buy one display instead of two.

From The Verge