How to pronounce “snag”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
• A dead tree that remains standing.
• 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.
• (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
• A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
• (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
• A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
• One of the secondary branches of an antler.
• [Verb]
• To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
• 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.
• (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.
• (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
• (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
• (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
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