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snag

  [snag] noun, verb, snagged, snag⋅ging.
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–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)
7. to run or catch up on a snag.
8. to damage by so doing.
9. to obstruct or impede, as a snag does: He snagged all my efforts.
10. to grab; seize: to snag the last piece of pie.
–verb (used without object)
11. to become entangled with some obstacle or hindrance.
12. to become tangled: This line snags every time I cast.
13. (of a boat) to strike a snag.
14. to form a snag.
Origin:
1570–80; < ON snagi point, projection

Related forms:
snaglike, adjective
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snag   (snāg)   
n.  
  1. A rough, sharp, or jagged protuberance, as:
    1. A tree or a part of a tree that protrudes above the surface in a body of water. Also called sawyer. See Regional Note at preacher.
    2. A snaggletooth.
  2. A break, pull, or tear in fabric.
  3. An unforeseen or hidden obstacle. See Synonyms at obstacle.
  4. A short or imperfectly developed branch of a deer's antler.
v.   snagged, snag·ging, snags

v.   tr.
  1. To tear, break, hinder, or destroy by or as if by a snag: snagged a stocking on a splinter.
  2. Informal To catch unexpectedly and quickly: snagged a bargain.
  3. To free of snags: snagged the river.
  4. To catch (a fish), especially by hooking in a place other than its mouth.
v.   intr.
To be damaged by a snag: His sweater snagged on a tree branch.

[Of Scandinavian origin.]
snag'gy adj.
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Snag

Snag\, n. [Prov. E., n., a lump on a tree where a branch has been cut off; v., to cut off the twigs and small branches from a tree, of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. snaigh, snaidh, to cut down, to prune, to sharpen, p. p. snaighte, snaidhte, cut off, lopped, Ir. snaigh a hewing, cutting.]

1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. --Dryden.

2. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. --Prior.

3. 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.

4. (Zo["o]l.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

Snag boat, a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. [U.S.]

Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2.

How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. --J. Cotgrave.

Snag

Snag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Snagging.]

1. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]
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Language Translation for : snag
Spanish: pega, problema, inconveniente,
German: der Haken,
Japanese: 障害
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snag 
1577, "stump of a tree, branch," of Scand. origin, cf. O.N. snagi "clothes peg," snaga "a kind of ax." The meaning "sharp or jagged projection" is first recorded 1586; that of "obstacle, impediment" is 1829. The verb meaning "to be caught on an impediment" is attested from 1807, from the noun. Originally Amer.Eng., often of steamboats caught on branches and stumps lodged in riverbeds. The meaning "to catch, steal, pick up" is Amer.Eng. colloquial, attested from 1895. Snaggle-toothed "having crooked, projecting teeth" (1585) is from the same root.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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snag
bug

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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snag

see hit a snag.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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