snake

name

1. The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
2. 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.
3. A surname.
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noun

Etymology: From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).

1. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

   “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.”

2. A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

   “Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer”

   “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.”

3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
5. A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
6. Trouser snake; the penis.
7. A series of Bézier curves.
8. The seventh Lenormand card.
9. An informer; a rat.

   “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”

10. A person who interferes with another's run or who takes their run out of turn.
11. Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.

    “The snake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation.”

12. Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
13. Ellipsis of snake game.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).

1. To follow or move in a winding route.

   “The path snaked through the forest.”

   “The river snakes through the valley.”

2. To steal slyly.

   “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 !”

3. To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

   “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”

5. 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. To inform; to rat; often with out.

   “He says he didn't snake and I believe him.”

7. To interfere with another's run or to take one's run out of turn.

   “Snaking is the number one way to get hurt and/or get rejected by existing scenes at your local skatepark or street spot.”