ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Snagger

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Snagger is a noun meaning (fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.

Meaning

(fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.

A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
(Australia, shearing) The slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.
A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.
(UK, dialect) A turnip.
(chiefly 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.

I was a snagger on the building site, where I was going around pointing out problems.

We've gone from a small company in west Wales to the UK's number one snagger inspectors

The `ringer' looks around and is beaten by a blow. And curses the old snagger with the blue-bellied Jo.

Snag List Steve is not a happy snagger. […] It's his job to ensure that new homes are finished properly for their buyers - his clients.

Related dictionary entries include fishhook, hook, spinner, angle, boulter, baithook.

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.