Pronunciations (2)
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/sneɪk/
Pronunciation notes
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ˈsneɪk
Noun
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
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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.
Usage- Figurative
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Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer
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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.
Well, if it was Moore, he's a fucking snake.
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[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.
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
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A tool to aid cable pulling.
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A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
Usage- Australia
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Trouser snake; the penis.
Usage- Slang
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A series of Bézier curves.
The seventh Lenormand card.
An informer; a rat.
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
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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
A person who interferes with another's run or who takes their run out of turn.
Usage- Slang
Verb
To follow or move in a winding route.
Usage- Intransitive
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The path snaked through the forest.
The river snakes through the valley.
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Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
=Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs.
Opened in June of that year [1880], 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.
To steal slyly.
Usage- Australia
- Slang
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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.
Usage- Transitive
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
Usage- US usage
- Informal
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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.
To inform; to rat; often with out.
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
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He says he didn't snake and I believe him.
To interfere with another's run or to take one's run out of turn.
Usage- Slang
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Snaking is the number one way to get hurt and/or get rejected by existing scenes at your local skatepark or street spot.
Noun
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
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a deceitful or treacherous person
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something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
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a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
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Verb
move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
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form a snake-like pattern
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The river snakes through the valley
move along a winding path
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The army snaked through the jungle