snake
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.Examples: "Near-synonym: rat"; "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."figuratively
2. (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.AustraliaUK
3. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.Synonyms: trouser snakeslang
4. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
5. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
6. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.Examples: "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"Synonyms: abaddon, accuser, beefer, bewrayer, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongueMulticultural-London-English
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.Examples: "The path snaked through the forest."; "The river snakes through the valley."; "Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?"Synonyms: slither, windintransitive
2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.Examples: "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 !"Australiaslangtransitive
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.transitive
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.Examples: "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"USinformal
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. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.Examples: "He says he didn't snake and I believe him."Multicultural-London-English
name (English)
1. (astrology, timekeeping) The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.countableuncountable
2. (video games) 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.countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary