snag /snæɡ/noun 13verb 6forms 4phrases 1 noun13 •(figurative) A problem or difficulty with something.we hit a snag •A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear. •(Australia, informal) A sausage.I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags. — 2005 •A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. — 1697 •Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. •A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.To see our Women's Teeth look white. / And ev'ry saucy ill-bred Fellow / Sneers at a Mouth profoundly yellow. / In China none hold Women sweet, / Except their Snags are black as jett. — 1718 •One of the secondary branches of an antler. •A dead tree that remains standing. •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.‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’ — 1842 •(informal) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.Over time, the ‘sensitive’ aspect of the SNAG has become paramount. — 1999 •(slang) A goal."It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags." — 2003 •A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). •(dialect, no longer used) A light meal. verb6 •To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench! •(slang) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog. •To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862. •To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River. •(slang) To have noncommittal sexual relations.Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance. — 2021 •(dialect, UK) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen — 1846 formssnagged · snagging · snags · SNAGs Phrases with snag hit a snagTo encounter an unexpected problem or delay.
