snake oil
A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
noun
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.
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.
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
verb
To follow or move in a winding route.
The path snaked through the forest.
The river snakes through the valley.
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 !
To clean using a plumbing snake.
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
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
The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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.
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