Re: OT: snag and troll, was: Rant about degres Celsius
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 9:58 |
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In a message dated 12/5/01 11:31:42 PM, bronto@POBOX.COM writes:
<< I know someone who uses `snag' as a slang equivalent of `pick up',
as in "I'll swing by later and snag that book from you." >>
That's actually the only way I understood it, though I do know of the
usage of, say, "That dress caught a snag". But, yeah, for me, it's just
another colorful word for "get".
-David
"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
--Jim Morrison
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