Hop, managed to snap (5)
I believe the answer is:
photo
'snap' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'hop managed to' is the wordplay.
'managed' is an anagram indicator.
'hop' with letters rearranged gives 'pho'.
'pho'+'to'='PHOTO'
(Other definitions for photo that I've seen before include "Picture, in short" , "Snap - shot" , "Snap, picture" , "In brief, a snapshot" , "Picture (abbr)" .)