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Definition snag

Etymology 1

Of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”). Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”).

Noun

snag (plural snags)

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.
2. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
3. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
4. 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.
5. (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
6. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
7. One of the secondary branches of an antler.

Verb

snag (third-person singular simple present snags, present participle snagging, simple past and past participle snagged)

1. To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
2. 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.
3. (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.
4. (slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
5. (slang) To stealthily steal with legerdemain prowess (something).
6. (Britain, dialectal) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

Etymology 2

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 "snag roll" (i.e., sausage roll), which is rhyming slang for "goal".

Noun

snag (plural snags)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A light meal.
2. (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage. [From 1937.]
3. (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.

Etymology 3

Noun

snag (plural snags)

1. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

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