snake

IPA: snˈeɪk

A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
A treacherous person; a rat.
(Ireland, UK) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
(UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
(mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
(MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
(astrology, timekeeping) The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
(video games) 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.
(finance, historical) Short for snake in the tunnel. [(finance, historical) The first (1970s) attempt at European monetary cooperation, essentially pegging all of the EEC currencies to one another.]
Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”). [Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:]
Ellipsis of Snake Island.. [Any of several islands with the name]

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
(US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
(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.
(MLE) To inform; to rat.

Examples of "snake" in Sentences

This snake is a role model to the bulimic community everywhere.
I think he is a dangerous friend — what I call a snake in the grass.
I think he is a dangerous friend -- what I call a snake in the grass.
According to several web sites the snake is an Australian Olive Whipsnake, Demansia olivacea, and is rather venomous.
The term snake oil is often used to describe cryptography that does not actually provide the level of security that its proponents claim.
Not to be confused at all with its many nonpoisonous neighbors, this snake is a pit viper in the same general family as the Copperhead and the Rattler.
In the tale Mr. Get-Even Coyote the snake is allowed to destroy the coyote, who has a sad fate throughout all of the tales in which he figures because of his predatory habits.
Eventually this behavior became so widespread that the term snake oil became generalized to other products, ones that made claims of effectiveness that could not easily be substantiated by consumers and should thus be suspected of being false or misleading.
Raccoons, one excessively stinky skunk in the southbound lane of US 1A (different section than last time), one garter snake, one eastern milk snake _or_ northern water snake*, various things not seen in the roadside grass but making their presence felt (or smelled).