Definition of "snake"

snake

/sneɪk/

noun
plural snakes
1. A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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  The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
  1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates‎
  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.
  1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
2. A treacherous person; a rat.
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  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.
  1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby‎
3. (Ireland, UK) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
5. A tool to aid cable pulling.
6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
10. (MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
  Quotations
  Yo, bare people and the snakes, yeah, they're just grass / Next minute you're the mate, yeah / Next day stab in the back
  2017 April 7, “War Dub”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate)
11. (finance, historical) Short for snake in the tunnel.
  Quotations
  The snake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation.
  2001, W. Bonefeld, The Politics of Europe: Monetary Union and Class, page 69
12. Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
verb
third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked
1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
  Quotations
  Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
  1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, in aus.personals‎ (Usenet)
  Opened in June of that year , the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath.
  2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59–60
2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
  Quotations
  Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier. […] Someone already has :) […] F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
  2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, in aus.cars‎ (Usenet)
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
  Quotations
  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
  November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson
5. (nautical) 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.
6. (MLE) To inform; to rat.

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