snagger

plural snaggers

1. fishingA fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.
2. A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
3. AustraliashearingThe slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.

   The `ringer' looks around and is beaten by a blow. And curses the old snagger with the blue-bellied Jo.

   1946 October 9, The Advocate, Melbourne, page 9, column 2

4. A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.
5. UKdialectalA turnip.
6. IrelandUKA person who reviews newly built properties to find issues to be remedied before the client buying the home moves in; someone who produces a snag list.

   I was a snagger on the building site, where I was going around pointing out problems.

   2024 January 3, Saoirse Monica Jackson, quotee, “Derry Girls star Saoirse Monica Jackson reveals surprising job she did before becoming famous”, in Irish Mirror

   2 more examples

   Snag List Steve is not a happy snagger. […] It's his job to ensure that new homes are finished properly for their buyers - his clients.

   2019 February 15, “'Some so-called tradesmen should be truly ashamed of themselves' - Steve's snagging headache bodes badly for buyers”, in Irish Independent

   We've gone from a small company in west Wales to the UK's number one snagger inspectors

   2022 October 21, John Cooper, quotee, “The building inspectors exposing cowboy builders on TikTok: Experts' videos blasting 'absolutely shocking' paving, electrics and brickwork have been watched over eight million times”, in Daily Mail