Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rough, sharp, or jagged protuberance, as.
- noun A dead or partly dead tree that is still standing.
- noun A tree or a part of a tree that is sunken in or protrudes above a body of water and is a danger to navigation.
- noun A snaggletooth.
- noun A short or imperfectly developed branch of a deer's antler.
- noun A break, pull, or tear in fabric.
- noun An unforeseen or hidden obstacle or difficulty.
- intransitive verb To tear, break, hinder, or destroy by or as if by a snag.
- intransitive verb Informal To catch or obtain quickly or unexpectedly.
- intransitive verb To free of snags.
- intransitive verb To catch (a fish), especially by hooking in a place other than its mouth.
- intransitive verb To be damaged by a snag.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To catch or run upon a snag: as, to
snag a fish-hook; to snag, a steamboat. - Figuratively, to entangle; embarrass; bring to a standstill.
- To fill with snags; act as a snag to.
- To clear of snags.
- noun A sharp protuberance; a projecting point; a jag.
- noun Specifically A short projecting stump, stub, or branch; the stubby base of a broken or cut-off branch or twig; a jagged branch separate from the tree.
- noun A tree, or part of a tree, lying in the water with its branches at or near the surface, so as to be dangerous to navigation.
- noun Hence A hidden danger or obstacle; an unsuspected source or occasion of error or mistake; a stnmbling-block.
- noun 5. A snag-tooth.
- noun The fang or root of a tooth.
- noun A branch or tine on the antler of a deer; a point. See cut under
antler . - noun plural The fruit of the snag-bush.
- noun In mech., a lug, or projection from a surface, through which there is a hole to receive a bolt or pin.
- noun A snail.
- To trim by lopping branches; cut the branches, knots, or protuberances from, as the stem of a tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- transitive verb United States To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
- noun A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
- noun A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
- noun A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- noun [U.S.] a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams.
- noun Same as
Snag , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; aknot ; aprotuberance . - noun A
tooth projecting beyond the rest; a broken or decayed tooth. - noun A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- noun figuratively A
problem ordifficulty with something. - noun A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- noun One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- verb To
catch ortear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. - verb fishing To
fish by means of dragging a largehook or hooks on aline , intending toimpale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. - verb slang To
obtain or pick up (something). - verb UK, dialect To cut the snags or
branches from, as the stem of a tree; tohew roughly. - noun UK, dialect, obsolete A light meal.
- noun A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- verb hew jaggedly
- verb get by acting quickly and smartly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One day something my grandfather used to say occurred to me as I was tying on terminal tackle after another snag from a morning full of wading places i didn't want to disturb to free tackle and occassionally having to break one off.
Trout Spinner Primer 2009
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One day something my grandfather used to say occurred to me as I was tying on terminal tackle after another snag from a morning full of wading places i didn't want to disturb to free tackle and occassionally having to break one off.
Trout Spinner Primer 2009
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The snag is that your credit card is going to be charged for a while -- but unlike some magazine subscriptions, it won't be forever.
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The snag is that such a drug would also affect other areas of autonomic nerve control, such as tear and saliva production, eye muscles, digestive system, heart rate, bladder and bowel function.
Doctor, doctor: Is 16 pints of milk a week too much? Dr Tom Smith 2010
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Another potential snag is a newly enforced requirement that buildings have at least 10 percent of their annual budget in a reserve fund.
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The snag is that your credit card is going to be charged for a while -- but unlikesome magazine subscriptions, it won't be forever.
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The snag is that euro-zone government bonds differ from those of other developed markets, such as the U.K. or the U.S.
New Euro-Zone Rules Could Backfire Richard Barley 2010
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The snag is that the "toy parliament" has no opposition.
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One snag is that the commission has four vacancies and therefore lacks a quorum to consider the matter.
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One snag is that the commission has four vacancies and therefore lacks a quorum to consider the matter.
thesaraheffect commented on the word snag
So, what exactly would it mean to "snag a snag?"
September 17, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word snag
You're fishing in a reservoir whose bottom is rife with trees that died when the dam was completed and the water flooded a valley behind the dam. Your hook gets caught on one of the submerged dead trees. That's how one can snag a snag. Mighty frustrating.
September 17, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word snag
Good Lord, lead us,
Good Lord speed us,
From all perils protect us,
From the darkness us direct;
Finest nights to land our fish,
Sound and big to fill our wish.
God keep our nets from snag and break,
For every man a goodly take,
Lord grant us.
- The ancient Spedwell Prayer, Britain
October 23, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word snag
Australian slang: sausage
"She leaves the spuds boiling on the stove and the snags spitting on low heat to go upstairs to listen to him tinkling on the piano."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 158 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 31, 2010
Louises commented on the word snag
In australia snag is both a sensitive new age guy or a sausage on the BBQ
June 29, 2012
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TIL: in indigenous slang, a snag is a one-night stand hookup type person.
September 22, 2024