snake

/ˈsneɪk/

noun

  1. 1

    A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

  2. 2

    A treacherous person.

  3. 3

    Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

  4. 4

    A tool for unclogging plumbing.

  5. 5

    A tool to aid cable pulling.

  6. 6

    A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

  7. 7

    Trouser snake; the penis.

  8. 8

    A series of Bézier curves.

  9. 9

    The seventh Lenormand card.

verb

  1. 1

    To follow or move in a winding route.

    The path snaked through the forest.
  2. 2

    To steal slyly.

    He snaked my DVD!
  3. 3

    To clean using a plumbing snake.

  4. 4

    To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

  5. 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.

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