Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun snarl-up

1 sense of snarl-up

Sense 1
traffic jam, snarl-up -- (a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move)
       => crush, jam, press -- (a dense crowd of people)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb snarl-up

1 sense of snarl up

Sense 1
snarl, snarl up, embrangle -- (make more complicated or confused through entanglements)
       => complicate, perplex -- (make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter")