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noun
informal, mainly British a confusion, obstruction, or tangle, esp a traffic jam
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Words nearby snarl-up

snarf, snark, snarky, snarl, snarler, snarl-up, snarly, snash, snatch, snatch block, snatched
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Words related to snarl-up

bottleneck, overpopulation, traffic jam, crowding, excess, jam, mass, press, profusion, surfeit, surplus, clogging, overcrowding, overdevelopment

How to use snarl-up in a sentence

  • Aircars were so nearly accident-proof that even Plemponi couldn't do more than snarl up traffic in one.

    Legacy|James H Schmitz
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