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Snitch (film)

Snitch (2013), directed by Ric Roman Waugh, is a crime drama starring Dwayne Johnson as a father who goes undercover for the DEA to reduce his son's mandatory 10-year drug sentence; released by Summit, grossing $57.9M worldwide.

SNK (エス・エヌ・ケイ)

SNK (エス・エヌ・ケイ), Japanese game company founded 1978 as Shin Nihon Kikaku, renamed SNK 1986; creator of the Neo Geo MVS/AES (1990) and Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters, Metal Slug; Saudi Misk-owned since 2022; AES+ replica due 2027.

SNL Digital Short

SNL Digital Short: pre-filmed comedy videos on Saturday Night Live, created 2005 by The Lonely Island (Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer); 'Lazy Sunday' and Emmy-winning 'Dick in a Box' made them YouTube-era viral landmarks.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, a February 14, 2025 Radio City Music Hall special hosted by Jimmy Fallon on Peacock, celebrated 50 years of Saturday Night Live music with Cher, Lady Gaga, Nirvana, and more.

SNO+

SNO+ is a liquid-scintillator neutrino detector about 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Creighton mine near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, whose primary goal is a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of tellurium-130.

Snob

Snob: an English word first recorded in the 1770s meaning cobbler, later popularized by Thackeray for a person admiring wealth or rank; also the snob effect, a negative network externality in economics.

SNOBOL

SNOBOL, ostensibly StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language, is a family of programming languages developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1962 by Farber, Griswold, and Polonsky for string manipulation, with SNOBOL4 still in use today.

Snocaps

Snocaps: American indie rock band formed 2025 by twin sisters Allison and Katie Crutchfield (Swearin', Waxahatchee), formerly of P.S. Eliot. Self-titled debut on ANTI- (Oct 31, 2025) with Brad Cook and MJ Lenderman; 80/100 critical consensus.

SnoCore Tour

SnoCore Tour, also written Sno-Core, was an annual US festival tour of alternative rock and punk bands marketed to winter sports fans, featuring Sublime, Primus, Blink-182, and System of a Down.

Snoh Aalegra (شهرزاد فولادی)

Snoh Aalegra (شهرزاد فولادی), born Shahrzad Fooladi in 1987 in Uppsala, Sweden, is a Swedish-Iranian R&B singer-songwriter of "cinematic soul" known for Feels, Ugh Those Feels Again, the Grammy-nominated Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies, and the 2026 album Legendary Love.

Snohomish County, Washington

Snohomish County, Washington: Puget Sound county created January 14, 1861 from Island County, seat at Everett, population about 870,000 (2025), home of Boeing Commercial Airplanes headquarters.

Snøhvit gas field

Snøhvit, Norwegian for "Snow White," is a gas and condensate field in the Barents Sea off Hammerfest, Norway, the first Barents Sea field, in production since 2007.

SNOLAB

SNOLAB is Canada's deep underground astroparticle physics laboratory, located 2,070 m below ground in the Creighton nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, and hosting more than 20 experiments.

SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is a multilingual clinical terminology giving each clinical meaning a unique numeric identifier, first released in January 2002 with 278,000 concepts.

Snoo (bassinet)

The Snoo is a smart bassinet by Happiest Baby, founded by pediatrician Harvey Karp, that automatically rocks and plays white noise in response to crying, launched in 2016.

Snooker

Snooker, a cue sport invented in 1875 in Jubbulpore, India, by British Army officers; played on a 3.57 m table, with the World Championship at Sheffield's Crucible since 1977 and major growth in China and Asia.

Snooker Shoot Out

Snooker Shoot Out: professional snooker ranking event (since 2017) played as single-frame knockouts capped at 10 minutes with 15/10-second shot clocks; 128 players, £50,000 top prize, 15 editions with 15 different champions, highest break 147 by Shaun Murphy.

Snooker world rankings

Snooker world rankings: official WPBSA/WST player list, introduced 1976 from three World Championships, points-based until 2014/15, now a rolling two-year prize-money list used for seedings, the Masters top 16, and tour survival.

Snooki

Snooki is the TV nickname of Nicole Elizabeth LaValle (née Polizzi), American reality star of MTV's Jersey Shore (2009), spin-offs Snooki & JWoww and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, NYT bestselling author, podcast host, and 2026 stage 1 cervical cancer survivor.

Snoop (The Wire)

Snoop is a fictional assassin in Marlo Stanfield's drug organization on HBO's The Wire, played by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, cast after Michael K. Williams met her in a Baltimore nightclub; known for the season-four nail gun scene.

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (1971, Long Beach), also Snoop Doggy Dogg and Snoop Lion, is an American rapper discovered by Dr. Dre in 1992; Doggystyle (1993) was the first rap debut album to top the Billboard 200.

Snoop Dogg discography

Snoop Dogg discography: catalog of Snoop Doggy Dogg, spanning 21+ studio albums from Doggystyle (1993), the first rap debut to top the Billboard 200, through Missionary (2024) and Iz It a Crime (2026).

Snoopy

Snoopy is the fictional beagle of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, first appearing October 4, 1950. Known for the World War I Flying Ace persona, the Red Baron rivalry, Joe Cool, NASA's Apollo 10 naming, and global merchandising.

Snoopy in Space

Snoopy in Space (also Snoopy in Space: The Search for Life) is a WildBrain-produced Apple TV+ animated series of 24 shorts (2019, 2021) in which Snoopy trains as a NASA astronaut, tied to the 2018 NASA-Peanuts Space Act Agreement.

Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is a 2025 Apple TV+ Peanuts animated musical special, the first in 35 years, directed by Erik Wiese with songs by Ben Folds and Jeff Morrow, in which Charlie Brown tries to save Cloverhill Ranch summer camp.

Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy

Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy is a 2026 animated Peanuts special, the fifty-third, in which Charlie Brown helps Snoopy find his sold doghouse.

Snoopy, Come Home

Snoopy, Come Home (1972) is the second theatrical Peanuts feature, directed by Bill Melendez and written by Charles Schulz, in which Snoopy visits his ailing former owner Lila; it introduced Woodstock and used a Sherman Brothers score instead of Vince Guaraldi's jazz.

Snoopy's World

Snoopy's World (Snoopyland) is a free Peanuts-themed outdoor playground opened in 2000 on level 3 of New Town Plaza, Sha Tin, Hong Kong; 40,000 sq ft, six zones, HK$30 million, Asia's first Peanuts playground.

Snootie Wild

Snootie Wild (LePreston Porter III, 1985-2022) was a Memphis rapper whose 2013 single "Yayo" reached the rap Top 20 and led to Yo Gotti's CMG/Epic signing; Go Mode EP (2014), died after a Houston shooting.

Snopes

Snopes (snopes.com), founded 1994 by David and Barbara Mikkelson as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is an American fact-checking website covering urban legends, viral rumors, and political claims, known for its five-point rating scale and high agreement with PolitiFact.