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Snag
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- 1 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."
- 2 A light meal. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 3 A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- 4 Acronym of sensitive new age guy. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, informal, uncommon
"Over time, the ‘sensitive’ aspect of the SNAG has become paramount."
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of snag (“sensitive new age guy”). alt-of
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- 6 an unforeseen obstacle wordnet
- 7 A dead tree that remains standing.
- 8 A sausage. Australia, colloquial, informal
"I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags."
- 9 an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart wordnet
- 10 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.’"
- 11 A goal. slang
"2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age "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.""
- 12 a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest wordnet
- 13 Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. broadly
- 14 a sharp protuberance wordnet
- 15 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."
- 16 A problem or difficulty with something. figuratively
"we hit a snag"
- 17 A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- 18 One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- 1 To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
"Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!"
- 2 hew jaggedly wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 catch on a snag wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 get by acting quickly and smartly wordnet
- 7 To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way. slang, transitive
"Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog."
- 8 To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. UK, dialectal
"When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen"
- 9 To have noncommittal sexual relations. slang
"Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance."
Etymology
From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”). Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).
From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”). Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).
The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.
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