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snag
[ snag ]
noun
- a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- a short, projecting stump, as of a branch broken or cut off.
- any sharp or rough projection.
- a jagged hole, tear, pull, or run in a fabric, as caused by catching on a sharp projection.
- any obstacle or impediment.
- a stump of a tooth or a projecting tooth; snaggletooth.
verb (used with object)
- to run or catch up on a snag.
- to damage by so doing.
- to obstruct or impede, as a snag does:
He snagged all my efforts.
- to grab; seize:
to snag the last piece of pie.
verb (used without object)
- to become entangled with some obstacle or hindrance.
- to become tangled:
This line snags every time I cast.
- (of a boat) to strike a snag.
- to form a snag.
snag
/ snæɡ /
noun
- a difficulty or disadvantage
the snag is that I have nothing suitable to wear
- a sharp protuberance, such as a tree stump
- a small loop or hole in a fabric caused by a sharp object
- engineering a projection that brings to a stop a sliding or rotating component
- a tree stump in a riverbed that is dangerous to navigation
- a standing dead tree, esp one used as a perch by an eagle
- slang.plural sausages
verb
- tr to hinder or impede
- tr to tear or catch (fabric)
- intr to develop a snag
- intr (of a boat) to strike or be damaged by a snag
- tr to clear (a stretch of water) of snags
- tr to seize (an opportunity, benefit, etc)
Derived Forms
- ˈsnagˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- snaglike adjective
- un·snagged adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of snag1
Word History and Origins
Origin of snag1
Idioms and Phrases
see hit a snag .Example Sentences
Development of an AR headset at Apple seems to have hit a snag or two under current project lead Mike Rockwell, though the report does not outline exactly which obstacles have emerged.
I babied mine and still saw a few small snags while bushwhacking.
It was inspiring to see how our customers reacted when we’d hit snags, like a shipping delay.
The snag is that the nonmedical part of the world has to buy in, too.
By May, those efforts seemed to hit a snag when the Housing Commission decided not to move forward with 10 hotel properties it had initially eyed.
He was 19, and managed to snag a summer internship with New Line Cinema.
The wire is long gone, but a rusted snag remains entombed in the bark.
This is a snag because Chan lives across the border, where the Hong Kong Dollar is used.
Over the last four years, however, the process has hit a snag.
Luz gets away and hires Malone to take her over the border, where Thacker and others are waiting to snag her.
We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.
Imbedded in this bar was a long white snag, a tree trunk whose naked arms, thrusting far down stream, had literally impaled us.
After that I waded back to the snag carefully, and once more ordered the young woman to come to me.
At length I crept to the snag and beat against it with my cane.
Down the road arose sharp words of command, and the burning top of a tall pine snag threw its light upon bayonets in the highway.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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