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.
© Webster 1913.