or half-snags, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Half-shares. See quots.
1683. EARL OF DORSET, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies. She mounts the price and goes HALF SNACK herself.
1887. Walford’s Antiquarian, p. 252. HALF SNAGS is a corrupted form of HALF SNACKS, i.e., half shares. If one of a party of arabs finds any article it becomes his entire property unless his fellows say ‘HALF-SNAGS,’ or ‘Quarter bits,’ or ‘Some for your neighbours.’
