Snake

/sneɪk/ · noun

Meaning

Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
2. (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
5. (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
6. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
7. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
8. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Example Sentences

The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.

After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.

Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer

Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.

Well, if it was Moore, he's a fucking snake.

[Friedrich] Kadgien—described by US interrogators as “not a true Nazi” but “a snake of the lowest sort”—subsequently left Switzerland for Brazil then Argentina, the paper said, where he started a company and a family and died in 1978, aged 71.

Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.

Yo, bare people and the snakes, yeah, they're just grass / Next minute you're the mate, yeah / Next day stab in the back

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• snakes
• snek
• snaking
• snaked

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