Usually means: Obstacle unexpectedly hindering progress, task.
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  1. snag: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snag: Merriam-Webster
  3. snag, snag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snag: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Snag, snag: Wordnik
  8. snag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snag: Wiktionary
  10. snag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snag: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. snag: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snag (disambiguation), Snag (ecology), Snag (textiles), Snag (website), Snag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snag: Rhymezone
  20. snag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SNAG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
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  24. snag: FreeDictionary.org
  25. snag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. snag: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. snag: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  1. snag, snag, snag, snag, snag, snag, snag, snag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snag, the snag: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
noun:  A dead tree that remains standing.
noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
noun:  A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
noun:  (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
noun:  A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
noun:  One of the secondary branches of an antler.
verb:  To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
verb:  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.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
verb:  (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
verb:  (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
noun:  (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
noun:  (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
noun:  A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
noun:  (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of snag (“sensitive new age guy”) [A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.]

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