Snake

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Snake (countable and uncountable, plural Snakes)

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  1. (astrology, timekeeping) The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
  2. (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.
  3. A surname.
  4. A placename:
    1. A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
    2. Ellipsis of Snake Island..

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German snāke, from Old Saxon *snako, from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (snake).

Noun[edit]

Snake m (plural Snaken)

  1. snake