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.

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