SNAG

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.

   “The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.”

2. isim A dead tree that remains standing.
3. isim 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.

   “‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’”

4. isim Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
5. isim A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.

   “To ſee our Women's Teeth look white. / And ev'ry ſaucy ill-bred Fellow / Sneers at a Mouth profoundly yellow. / In China none hold Women ſweet, / Except their Snags are black as jett.”

6. isim A problem or difficulty with something.

   “we hit a snag”

7. isim A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
8. isim One of the secondary branches of an antler.
9. fiil To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.

   “Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!”

10. fiil 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.

    “The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862.”

11. fiil 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.

    “We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.”

12. fiil To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.

    “Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.”

13. fiil To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

    “When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen”

14. fiil To have noncommittal sexual relations.

    “Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance.”

15. isim A light meal.
16. isim A sausage.

    “I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags.”

17. isim A goal.

    “2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."”

18. isim A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
19. isim Acronym of sensitive new age guy.

    “Over time, the ‘sensitive’ aspect of the SNAG has become paramount.”

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