Definitions for snag

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Spelling: [snag]

IPA: /snæg/

Snag is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in snag (agns).

Definitions for snag

noun

1. 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.
2. a short, projecting stump, as of a branch broken or cut off.
3. any sharp or rough projection.
4. a jagged hole, tear, pull, or run in a fabric, as caused by catching on a sharp projection.
5. any obstacle or impediment.
6. a stump of a tooth or a projecting tooth; snaggletooth.

verb (used with object)

1. to run or catch up on a snag.
2. to damage by so doing.
3. to obstruct or impede, as a snag does:
4. to grab; seize:

verb (used without object)

1. to become entangled with some obstacle or hindrance.
2. to become tangled:
3. (of a boat) to strike a snag.
4. to form a snag.

Origin of snag

First recorded in 1570-80, snag is from the Old Norse word snagi point, projection

Examples for snag

They were always to be seen lying on a log or snag in the water.

Over the last four years, however, the process has hit a snag.

Then I had to look at the river mighty quick, because there was a snag in the fairway.

We also paused to look at the body of a dead alligator which had been caught in a snag.

He was 19, and managed to snag a summer internship with New Line Cinema.

If we'd struck a snag that would have held the tree, it would have been 'good-night' for us.

Megan wants Don to help her snag an audition for a shoe commercial.

The only snag in the latter theory was the fact of our accident.

This is a snag because Chan lives across the border, where the Hong Kong Dollar is used.

Luz gets away and hires Malone to take her over the border, where Thacker and others are waiting to snag her.