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    [Noun]  | "snake" | \ ˈsnāk \


    1: any of numerous limbless scaled reptiles (suborder Serpentes synonym Ophidia) with a long tapering body and with salivary glands often modified to produce venom which is injected through grooved or tubular fangs

    2: a worthless or treacherous fellow

    3: something (such as a plumber's snake) resembling a snake

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English snaca; akin to Old Norse snakr snake, Old High German snahhan to crawl;

    [Noun]  | "snake charmer" 


    1: an entertainer who exhibits a professed power to charm or fascinate venomous snakes

    Origin: 1836 ;

    [Noun]  | "snake dance" 


    1: a ceremonial dance in which snakes or their images are handled, invoked, or symbolically imitated by individual sinuous actions

    2: a group progression in a single-file serpentine path (as in celebration of an athletic victory)

    Origin: 1772 ;

    [Noun]  | "snake doctor" 


    1: dragonfly

    2: hellgrammite

    Origin: 1862 ;

    [Noun]  | "snake fence" 


    1: worm fence

    Origin: 1805 ;

    [Noun]  | "snake oil" 


    1: any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties

    2: poppycock, bunkum

    Origin: 1917 ;

    [Verb]  | "snake" 


    1: to wind (one's way, one's body in crawling, etc.) in the manner of a snake

    2: to move (something, such as logs) by dragging

    3: to crawl, move, or extend silently, secretly, or sinuously

    Origin: 1653 ;

    [Verb]  | "snake-dance" | \ ˈsnāk-ˌdan(t)s \


    1: to engage in a snake dance

    Origin: 1922 ;

    [Geographical name]  | "Snake" | \ ˈsnāk \


    1: river 1038 miles (1670 kilometers) long in the northwestern U.S. flowing from northwestern Wyoming across southern Idaho and into the Columbia River in Washington

    [Noun phrase]  | "snake in the grass" 


    1: a secretly faithless friend

    Origin: 1696 ;

    [Noun]  | "snake" 


    1: a limbless reptile with a long body;


      * e.g., " ... snakes are cold-blooded, so they regulate their body temperature by alternately basking in sunlight and seeking shade "



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    2: a person whose behavior is offensive to others;


      * e.g., " ... why, that dirty, rotten snake! "



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    3: one who betrays a trust or an allegiance;


      * e.g., " ... what a snake she was—having an affair with my husband while I was in the hospital! "



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    [Noun]  | "snake pit" 


    1: a state in which everything is out of order;


      * e.g., " ... finally managed to crawl out of the snake pit of her drug addiction "




    [Noun]  | "snake pits" 


    1: a state in which everything is out of order;


      * e.g., " ... finally managed to crawl out of the snake pit of her drug addiction "




    [Noun]  | "garter snake" 


    [Noun]  | "gopher snake" 


    [Noun]  | "chicken snake" 


    [Noun]  | "bull snake" 


    [Noun]  | "coral snake" 


    [Noun]  | "green snake" 


    [Verb]  | "snake" 


    1: to move about in a sly or secret manner;


      * e.g., " ... snaking softly through the brush "



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    2: to move slowly with the body close to the ground;


      * e.g., " ... commandos snaking through the grass toward the house "



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