Snarge

Quick meaning: Snarge is a noun meaning (military, aviation, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.

Meaning

(military, aviation, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.

Example Sentences

Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.

Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prang, shrapnel, surge, nade, splash, tailstrike.

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