Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context UK Australian NZ English) a traffic jam
WordNet
n. a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move [syn: traffic jam]
Usage examples of "snarl-up".
This had been a long day, and one with more snarl-ups than he cared to count, keeping him on a constant, dogged trot between the ship and the fitting yard where riggers labored with the slowest motions possible to the human body-or so it seemed to the exasperated acting-Cargo-Master of the Free Trader.
This had been a long day, and one with more snarl-ups than he cared to count, keeping him on a constant, dogged trot between the ship and the fitting yard where riggers labored with the slowest motions possible to the human body—or so it seemed to the exasperated acting-Cargo-Master of the Free Trader.
The resulting town strained against its green belt and suffered from interior traffic snarl-ups on a standstill scale.
There hadn't been traffic snarl-ups and gridlock like it for over a decade.