The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNORT
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What does SNORT mean?
SNORT noun- The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
- A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
- A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
- A submarine snorkel.
- To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
- To express or force out by snorting.
- To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
- To snore.
- (of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.