snag
IPA: snˈæg
noun
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- 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.
- (by extension) 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.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- Alternative letter-case form of snag (“sensitive new age guy”) [A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.]
verb
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- 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.
- (fishing) 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.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
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Examples of "snag" in Sentences
- He knows how to deal with a snag.
- That snag is in the timeline theory.
- What are the snags in this situation
- This is currently in the snagging phase.
- He became a hero after overcoming a snag.
- The initiative hit snags from the beginning.
- The inclusion of non free images appears to be the snag.
- The string loosened from the snag and she came on again.
- The snag is that the "toy parliament" has no opposition.
- Pawan Hans pilot flew helicopter with snag, risked passengers' lives.
- During the re deploy of the array, the array panels snagged and were damaged.
- One snag is that the commission has four vacancies and therefore lacks a quorum to consider the matter.
- The snag is that euro-zone government bonds differ from those of other developed markets, such as the U.K. or the U.S.
- The snag is that your credit card is going to be charged for a while -- but unlikesome magazine subscriptions, it won't be forever.
- 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.
- Another potential snag is a newly enforced requirement that buildings have at least 10 percent of their annual budget in a reserve fund.
- 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.
- 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.