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Snake
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- 1 The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. countable, uncountable
- 2 An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail. countable, uncountable
- 3 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename:; A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename:; Ellipsis of Snake Island. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
"The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips."
- 2 limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous wordnet
- 3 A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person. figuratively
"Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer"
- 4 a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes wordnet
- 5 A tool for unclogging plumbing.
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- 6 something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake wordnet
- 7 A tool to aid cable pulling.
- 8 a deceitful or treacherous person wordnet
- 9 A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake. Australia, UK
- 10 Trouser snake; the penis. slang
- 11 A series of Bézier curves.
- 12 The seventh Lenormand card.
- 13 An informer; a rat. Multicultural-London-English
"Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man."
- 14 Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical
"The snake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation."
- 15 Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To follow or move in a winding route. intransitive
"The path snaked through the forest."
- 2 move along a winding path wordnet
- 3 To steal slyly. Australia, slang, transitive
"He snaked my DVD!"
- 4 move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake wordnet
- 5 To clean using a plumbing snake. transitive
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- 6 form a snake-like pattern wordnet
- 7 To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out. US, informal
"November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority"
- 8 To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- 9 To inform; to rat; often with out. Multicultural-London-English
"He says he didn't snake and I believe him."
Etymology
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).
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