Meaning

6 senses
  1. A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.

  2. A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.

  3. (Australia)The slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.

  4. A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.

  5. (UK, dialectal)A turnip.

  6. (Ireland, UK)A person who reviews newly built properties to find issues to be remedied before the client buying the home moves in; someone who produces a snag list.

Origin

From snag + -er.

From snag + -er.

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Forms

plural: snaggers
Singularsnagger
Pluralsnaggers

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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