snake

substantivo

1. 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. 2

   figuradoA 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.

   Well, if it was Moore, he's a fucking snake.

   [Friedrich] Kadgien—described by US interrogators as “not a true Nazi” but “a snake of the lowest sort”—subsequently left Switzerland for Brazil then Argentina, the paper said, where he started a company and a family and died in 1978, aged 71.

3. 3

   A tool for unclogging plumbing.

4. 4

   A tool to aid cable pulling.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   calãoTrouser snake; the penis.

7. 7

   A series of Bézier curves.

8. 8

   The seventh Lenormand card.

9. 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. 10

    calãoA person who interferes with another's run or who takes their run out of turn.

11. 11

    Variante de snake in the tunnelhistóricoEllipsis of snake in the tunnel.

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

12. 12

    Variante de black snakeEllipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

13. 13

    Variante de snake gameEllipsis of snake game.

verbo

1. 1

   To follow or move in a winding route.

   The path snaked through the forest.

   The river snakes through the valley.

   Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?

   =Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs.

2. 2

   calãoTo 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. 3

   To clean using a plumbing snake.

4. 4

   informalTo 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. 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. 6

   To inform; to rat; often with out.

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

7. 7

   calãoTo 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.

Formas

plural

snakes

pretérito

snaked

particípio passado

snaked

gerúndio

snaking

3.ª pessoa do singular

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