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snake

   [sneyk] noun, verb, snaked, snak·ing.
noun
1.
any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
2.
a treacherous person; an insidious enemy. Compare snake in the grass.
3.
Building Trades.
a.
Also called auger, plumber's snake. (in plumbing) a device for dislodging obstructions in curved pipes, having a head fed into the pipe at the end of a flexible metal band.
b.
Also called wirepuller. a length of resilient steel wire, for threading through an electrical conduit so that wire can be pulled through after it.
verb (used without object)
4.
to move, twist, or wind: The road snakes among the mountains.

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verb (used with object)
5.
to wind or make (one's course, way, etc.) in the manner of a snake: to snake one's way through a crowd.
6.
to drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope, as a log.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English snaca; cognate with Middle Low German snake, Old Norse snākr

Related forms
snake·like, adjective
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snake (sneɪk)
 
—n
1.  any reptile of the suborder Ophidia (or Serpentes), typically having a scaly cylindrical limbless body, fused eyelids, and a jaw modified for swallowing large prey: includes venomous forms such as cobras and rattlesnakes, large nonvenomous constrictors (boas and pythons), and small harmless types such as the grass snakeRelated: colubrine, ophidian
2.  Also called: snake in the grass a deceitful or treacherous person
3.  anything resembling a snake in appearance or action
4.  (in the European Union) a former system of managing a group of currencies by allowing the exchange rate of each of them only to fluctuate within narrow limits
5.  a tool in the form of a long flexible wire for unblocking drains
 
—vb
6.  (intr) to glide or move like a snake
7.  (US) (tr) to haul (a heavy object, esp a log) by fastening a rope around one end of it
8.  (US) (tr), (often foll by out) to pull jerkily
9.  (tr) to move in or follow (a sinuous course)
 
Related: colubrine, ophidian
 
[Old English snaca; related to Old Norse snākr snake, Old High German snahhan to crawl, Norwegian snōk snail]
 
'snakelike
 
—adj

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snake
1653, "to twist or wind (something) into the form of a snake," from snake (n.). The intrans. sense of "to move like a snake" is attested from 1848; that of "to wind or twist like a snake" (of roads, etc.) is from 1875.
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Slang Dictionary

snake definition


  1. in.
    to scheme; to plot and plan. (Prisons.) : He spent a lot of time snaking about that job.
  2. tv.
    to steal something. : Where did you snake that bike?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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