snarge

English

Etymology

Blend of snot +‎ garbage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snɑː(ɹ)dʒ/

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Noun

The remains of a bird struck by a high-speed train.

snarge (uncountable)

1. (military, aviation, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.
   • 2009 January 25, Matthew L. Wald, “Identifying the Bird After a Strike, When Not Much Bird Is Left”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.

   • 2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 April 2022:

     Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important.

Anagrams

• Garnes, serang, rengas, arengs, Ganser, ranges, Agners, Serang, Angers, resang, granes, Sanger, sanger, angers