Crocodile

Quick meaning: Crocodile is a noun meaning A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.

Meaning

A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.

More Meanings

1. (logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
2. (Philippines, figurative) greedy or corrupt person (especially a politician or any public official)
3. (intransitive, slang) To speak another language than Esperanto at an Esperanto-language gathering.
4. Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.

Example Sentences

The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.

We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles, enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation[…]

Two species of crocodile inhabit Australian waterways: (a) the saltwater Crocodile — Crocodylus porosus, and (b) the freshwater crocodile — Crocodylus johnstoni.

Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.

Word Forms

• crocodiles
• crocodiling
• crocodiled

Synonyms for crocodile

Depending on context, synonyms include croc.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alligator, croc, gavial, crocodilian, caiman, gharial.

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