to snooze your alarm

[englishhobby]

I wonder if the phrase "to snooze one's alarm" is natural in English (e. g. I snooze my alarm a couple of times before finally getting up).

 

[Rover_KE]

I know exactly what you mean but I've never heard anybody say that.

 

[5jj]

Nor have I. I put my alarm on snooze.

 

[Tarheel]

If it isn't something people say, maybe it will catch on.

Everybody is in agreement so far. We haven't heard anybody say that, but we know exactly what you mean.

I guess what you're asking is if you should use it. Well, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are some native speakers who say that now. Should I talk to my usage consultant?

 

[teechar]

There's also "hit snooze" or "hit the snooze button".

 

[englishhobby]

Should I talk to my usage consultant?

Sure, if you have one

 

[englishhobby]

I heard it here (0:20):

 

[Tarheel]

Sure, if you have one

I do indeed!

 

[Tarheel]

Sure, if you have one

She said, "Yes."

 

[BobK]

I know exactly what you mean but I've never heard anybody say that.

I'm afraid I have. It's not something I'd say - like 5jj I'd put my alarm on snooze. Call me old-fashioned, but to me the documentation for anything technical seerms to be written in some kind of pidgin English

 

[jutfrank]

She says this:

I might snooze it a couple of times

I consider snooze it an example of a very casual style that I wouldn't encourage most of my learners to imitate. If you want to go for a more 'proper' but still casual style, as a teacher, I'd tell you to say it like this:

I might hit snooze a couple of times

Using words as verbs when they're not usually used as verbs (verbing) can come across as lazy language. I don't think I'm being unfair to say that such verbing is perhaps more typical of young people like the girl in the video. I know 'snooze' is a verb, of course, but when she uses the word, she doesn't mean the action of snoozing. She's talking about the function on her phone, so it is a creative case of a noun being used as a verb.