Definitions for snakes

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snakes snake

Spelling: [sneyk]

IPA: /sneɪk/

Snakes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in snakes (aeknss).

Definitions for snakes

noun

1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
2. a treacherous person; an insidious enemy. Compare snake in the grass.
3. Building Trades. Also called auger, plumber's snake. (in plumbing) a device for dislodging obstructions in curved pipes, having a head fed into the pipe at the end of a flexible metal band. Also called wirepuller. a length of resilient steel wire, for threading through an electrical conduit so that wire can be pulled through after it.

verb (used with object)

1. to wind or make (one's course, way, etc.) in the manner of a snake:
2. to drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope, as a log.

verb (used without object)

1. to move, twist, or wind:

Origin of snakes

before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English snaca; cognate with Middle Low German snake, Old Norse snākr

Examples for snakes

They had not seen the snake at all, but a stick that came back to the thrower's hand was magic.

For these Arabs, Iran is the raised (and loaded) head of the snake.

Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil?

He certainly had warmed a snake on his hearth, and how was he to be rid of it?

Her tail bristled a little as it curled at the tip like a snake.

The snake was particularly kissed and touched as worshippers entered.

"Use it on whichever of us gets the first snake bite," said Linda.

Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.

When a man is bitten by a snake in a solitary place he is in God's hands.

Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.