Usually means: Traffic jam causing significant delay.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word snarl up:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. snarl up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snarl-up, snarl up: Merriam-Webster
  3. snarl-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snarl-up, snarl-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. snarl-up, snarl up: Vocabulary.com
  6. snarl-up: Wordnik
  7. snarl-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. snarl-up, snarl up: Wiktionary
  9. snarl-up, snarl up: Dictionary.com
  10. snarl-up, snarl up: Rhymezone
  11. snarl-up, snarl up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. snarl-up, snarl up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. snarl-up, snarl up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snarl up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snarl up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snarl up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (snarl up)

verb:  (transitive) to entangle
verb:  (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
verb:  (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
verb:  (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
verb:  (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up

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