Definizione monolingua

snag

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

   Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!

2. (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

   We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi river.

3. (slang) To obtain or pick up (something)

   Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.

4. (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
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. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
5. As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.
6. (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:

     The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgment by the parties of the second parts glamour.

7. (Australian, informal) A sausage.
8. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

Definizione dizionario snag

impedimento

intoppo

nocchio

ostacolo

spacco

sporgenza

Altri significati:

figuratively: problem or difficulty with something

(Australian, informal) A sausage.

One of the secondary branches of an antler.

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

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

(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.

As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.

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.

To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection

(slang) To pick up (something)

trouble(s)

(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