snag

Meanings

1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
2. A dead tree that remains standing.
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. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
5. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
6. A problem or difficulty with something.
7. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
8. One of the secondary branches of an antler.

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. 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. To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
5. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
6. To have noncommittal sexual relations.

1. A light meal.
2. A sausage.
3. A goal.

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

1. Acronym of sensitive new age guy.

1. Alternative letter-case form of snag (“sensitive new age guy”).

Etymology

From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”). Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).