Usually means: Angry growl from an animal.
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  1. snarl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snarl: Merriam-Webster
  3. snarl, snarl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snarl, snarl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snarl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snarl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snarl, snarl: Wordnik
  8. snarl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snarl: Wiktionary
  10. snarl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snarl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snarl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snarl: Dictionary.com
  14. snarl (v.1), snarl (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snarl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snarl (Transformers), Snarl (disambiguation), Snarl (software), Snarl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snarl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snarl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snarl: Rhymezone
  20. snarl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snarl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SNARL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. snarl: FreeDictionary.org
  24. snarl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. snarl: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. snarl: Legal dictionary

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  1. snarl: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNARL: Acronym Finder
  2. snarl: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snarl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snarled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
verb:  (intransitive) To become entangled.
verb:  (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
verb:  To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
noun:  A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
noun:  An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
noun:  A slow-moving traffic jam.
verb:  (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
verb:  (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
noun:  The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
noun:  A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
noun:  A squabble.

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