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snake

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Synonyms: slake, snare, shake, stake, sake, spake, snaky, nake, smake, snape, snoke

Antonyms: slake, snare, shake, stake, sake, spake, snaky, nake, smake, snape, snoke

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Noun

  1. {{senseid|en|Q2102}} Any of the suborder {{taxfmt|Serpentes|suborder}} of [[legless]] [[reptile]]s with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
  2. {{senseid|en|deceitful person}} {{lb|en|figurative}} A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a [[treacherous]] person.
  3. A [[tool]] for unclogging [[plumbing]].
  4. A tool to aid [[cable]] pulling.
  5. {{lb|en|UK|Australia}} A flavoured [[jube]] ([[confectionary]]) in the shape of a snake.
  6. {{lb|en|slang}} [[trouser snake|Trouser snake]]; the [[penis]].
  7. {{lb|en|maths}} A series of [[Bézier curve]]s.
  8. {{lb|en|cartomancy}} The seventh [[Lenormand]] card.
  9. {{lb|en|AAVE|MLE|MTE}} An [[informer]]; a [[rat]].
  10. {{lb|en|skateboarding|slang}} A [[person]] who [[interfere]]s with another's [[run]] or who takes their run [[out of turn]].
  11. {{lb|en|finance|historical}} {{ellipsis of|en|snake in the tunnel}}.
  12. {{ellipsis of|en|black snake||firework that creates a trail of ash}}.

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To follow or [[move]] in a [[wind]]ing route.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive|Australia|slang}} To steal slyly.
  3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[clean]] using a plumbing snake.
  4. {{lb|en|US|informal}} To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with ''out''.
  5. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|AAVE|MLE}} To inform; to [[rat]]; often with ''out''.
  7. {{lb|en|skateboarding|slang}} To [[interfere]] with another's [[run]] or to take one's run [[out of turn]].

Proper noun

  1. {{C|en|Astrology}} {{lb|en|astrology|timekeeping}} The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the [[Chinese zodiac]] related to the [[Chinese calendar]].
  2. {{lb|en|video games}} An early [[computer game]], later popular on [[mobile phone]]s, 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. {{surname|en}}.
  4. A [[placename]]:

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