snag
verb/snæɡ/
/snæɡ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they snag | /snæɡ/ /snæɡ/ |
| he / she / it snags | /snæɡz/ /snæɡz/ |
| past simple snagged | /snæɡd/ /snæɡd/ |
| past participle snagged | /snæɡd/ /snæɡd/ |
| -ing form snagging | /ˈsnæɡɪŋ/ /ˈsnæɡɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to catch or tear something on something rough or sharp; to become caught or torn in this way
- snag something on/in something I snagged my sweater on the wire fence.
- snag something The fence snagged my sweater.
- snag (on/in something) The nets snagged on some rocks.
- [transitive] snag something (from somebody) (North American English, informal) to succeed in getting something quickly, often before other people
- I snagged a ride from Joe.
Word Originverb late 16th cent. (in sense (2) of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin. The early sense ‘stump sticking out from a tree trunk’ gave rise to a US sense ‘submerged piece of timber obstructing navigation’, of which sense 1 is originally a figurative use. Current verb senses arose in the 19th cent.
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