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Meaning
Noun
●
In Genitalia & Snakes:
A
legless
reptile
of the
suborder
Serpentes with a long,
thin
body and a fork-shaped tongue.
●
A
treacherous
person; a rat.
●
In British English & Irish English:
Somebody who
acts
deceitfully
for social gain.
●
A
tool
for
unclogging
plumbing.
●
A
tool
to
aid
cable
pulling.
●
In Australian English:
A
flavoured
jube
(confectionary) in the
shape
of a snake.
●
Trouser
snake
; the penis.
●
In Mathematics:
A
series
of Bézier curves.
●
In Cartomancy:
The
seventh
Lenormand card.
●
In Multicultural London English & Multicultural Toronto English:
An
informer
; a rat.
●
In Finance:
Short for
snake
in the tunnel.
●
Short for
black snake
(“firework that
creates
a
trail
of ash”).
Verb
●
To
follow
or
move in
a
winding
route.
●
In Australian English:
To
steal
slyly.
●
To
clean
using a
plumbing
snake.
●
In American English:
To
drag
or
draw
, as a
snake
from a
hole
; often with out.
●
In 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.
●
In Multicultural London English:
To
inform
; to rat.
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.
●
A surname.
●
A placename
A
river
in the
northwestern
United States,
tributary
to the Columbia
●
A placename
Ellipsis of Snake Island.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
snake
English
snake
Middle English (1100-1500)
snaca
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Serpent
Snake
Auger
Wirepuller
Snek
Slither
Wind
Penis
Joe Blake
Danger Noodle
Plumber'S Snake
Trouser Snake
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Rhymes
Fake
Nake
Cake
Jake
Lake
Ache
Sake
Wake
Raik
Bake
Take
Hake
Make
Rake
Shake
Drake
Wrake
Sheik
Break
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Slake
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Snake
Spake
Flake
Awake
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Opaque
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