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SNAG

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

SNAG is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

SNAGS-s 2 SNAGGING-ging 11 SNAGGED-ged 5
noun
  1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
  2. A dead tree that remains standing.
  3. 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.
  4. broadlyAny sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
  5. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
  6. figurativelyA problem or difficulty with something.
    • we hit a snag
  7. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
  8. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
  9. UKdialectalobsoleteA light meal.
  10. AustraliacolloquialinformalA sausage.
  11. slangA goal.
  12. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
  13. abbreviationacronyminformaluncommonAcronym of sensitive new age guy.
verb
  1. transitiveTo catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
    • Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
  2. transitiveTo 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.
  3. transitiveTo 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.
  4. slangtransitiveTo 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.
  5. UKdialectalTo cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
  6. intransitiveslangTo have noncommittal sexual relations.