Dictionary Entry
snag
snag is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
- 2noun
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- 5transitive verb
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- 6transitive verb
To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
- 7noun
an unforeseen obstacle
- 8noun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"
"she had snags in her stockings"
- 9noun
a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
"a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds"
- 10noun
a sharp protuberance
- 11verb
hew jaggedly
- 12verb
catch on a snag
"I snagged my stocking"
- 13verb
get by acting quickly and smartly
"snag a bargain"
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