Definitions for Viper

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Viper vi·per

Spelling: [vahy-per]

IPA: /ˈvaɪ pər/

Viper is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Viper (eiprv).

Definitions for Viper

noun

1. any of several venomous Old World snakes of the genus Vipera, especially V. berus, a small snake common in northern Eurasia.
2. any related snakes belonging to the family Viperidae, characterized by erectile, venom-conducting fangs.
3. pit viper.
4. any of various venomous or supposedly venomous snakes.
5. a malignant or spiteful person.
6. a false or treacherous person.
7. (initial capital letter) Military. a 9-pound (4 kg), shoulder-launched, unguided U.S. Army antitank rocket with an effective range of 273 yards (250 meters).

Idioms

1. to nourish a viper in one's bosom, to befriend a person who proves to be treacherous.

Origin of Viper

1520-30; Latin vīpera, haplological variant of *vīvipera, noun use of feminine of *vīviper, later (as re-formation) vīviparus viviparous

Examples for Viper

But now it was a viper—not a divine hope—it had nourished in its bosom.

Of the actual duel between the Mountain and the viper, judging its accuracy is no easy matter.

Harold, you see, was always what they used to call "a viper."

He reminded me of a viper which I once killed in Beechcot Woods.

Oberyn “Red viper” Martell (Pedro Pascal)  Dies: Season 4, Episode 8: “The Mountain and the viper” Dios mio.

I'll bet you that she's the mistress of that viper Fauchery!

“I want to bring those who have wronged me to justice,” said the viper to Tyrion in the previous episode.

For the wife of this viper she still was, and who could tell how soon she might not be in his power again?

A spring is compressed before it's released; the viper coils before it strikes.

Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.