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snag

(snăg)

1. A rough, sharp, or jagged protuberance, as:

a. A dead or partly dead tree that is still standing.

b. A tree or a part of a tree that is sunken in or protrudes above a body of water and is a danger to navigation.

c. A snaggletooth.

d. A short or imperfectly developed branch of a deer's antler.

2. A break, pull, or tear in fabric.

3. An unforeseen or hidden obstacle or difficulty: Our plans for the party have hit a snag.

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 or obtain quickly or unexpectedly: snagged a ground ball; 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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snaggy

(snæɡɪ)

adj, -gier or -giest

having sharp protuberances

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