snag
Other forms: snags; snagged; snagging
A snag is something sharp that sticks out, like a splinter or a dead tree branch. It’s also a hitch in a plan. If you develop a terrible cat allergy, your lifelong dream of being a cat trainer has hit a snag.
A snag is something that you get stuck on, either literally or figuratively. If you catch your tights on a snag and change into different ones, it might put a snag in your plans to dress all in pink for the day. When something's caught this way, it snags. Snag, a U.S. coinage, was first used when steamboats got stuck on a log or branch in the river: "Captain, we've hit a snag!"
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a sharp or rough part that sticks out from a surface and can catch on thingstype of:bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swellingsomething that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
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a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest“a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds”type of:treea tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
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an unforeseen obstacletype of:obstacle, obstructionsomething immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
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catch or cause to catch on something sharp that is sticking out
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get by acting quickly and smartly“snag a bargain”type of:obtaincome into possession of
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hew jaggedlytype of:hewstrike with an axe; cut down, strike
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Vocabulary lists containing snag
Shipwrecked and blinded from a torpedo attack, Phillip must conquer his prejudices when his only companion is an elderly West Indian man named Timothy.
As you read Virginia Hamilton's retelling of the African folk tale "The People Could Fly," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 2: The People Could Fly, The Song of Wandering Aengus and Sonnet 43, Magic and the Brain, Another Place, Another Time, Sorry, Wrong Number
This American classic chronicles the exploits of Huck and Jim: one is running away from an abusive father and the other is fleeing enslavement. Read the full text here.