snaggle

(verb) To snaggle is to delay getting up to do something that should be done. Delaying repeatedly. Snaggling is most intense when two people are planning to do something or go someplace, but one of them is busy with something and snaggles. Later, when the occupied person is ready to go, the other person is then busy, having started a lengthy activity out of boredom from waiting for the first person, perpetuating the snaggle. This back-and-forth cycle continues until it's too late to do whatever was going to be done, at which point the two (or more) individuals blame each other for snaggling.

Keenan: "Get up, Steve, we gotta go food shopping"
Steve: "Alright, let me finish this Gran Turismo race first"

(20 minutes later)

Steve: "Alright I'm ready to go, let's go."
Keenan: "Hang on I'm on the phone with my mom, give me 10 minutes."

(20 minutes later)

Keenan: "Alright man, let's go now."
Steve: "Just let me finish watching this YouTube video."

(20 minutes later)

Steve: "Alright, I'm ready. Let's go."
Keenan: "Can't. The grocery store is closed now. I guess we shouldn't have snaggled all night."

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