snake

UK /sneɪk/ US /sneɪk/
noun 5verb 5name 5

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

2

A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

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.

3

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

4

A tool to aid cable pulling.

5

A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

verb

1

To follow or move in a winding route.

The path snaked through the forest.

The river snakes through the valley.

2

To steal slyly.

He snaked my DVD!

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 !

3

To clean using a plumbing snake.

4

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

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

5

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.

name

1

The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

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.

3

A surname.

4

A placename:

5

A placename:

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