snakebite

English

snakebite lip piercings

Alternative forms

• snake bite

Etymology

snake +‎ bite

Pronunciation

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Noun

snakebite (countable and uncountable, plural snakebites)

1. (countable) The bite of a snake.
2. (countable, uncountable) A drink made by mixing hard cider and lager.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 231:

     We agreed to go down to the bar and get a snakebite together, […]

3. (countable) Either of a pair of lip piercings below the lower lip, resembling the fangs of a snake.

   Coordinate term: angel bites

   Ellie recently got a navel piercing and snakebites.

Derived terms

• (drink): snakebite and black, snakey B

Translations

the bite of a snake

• Bulgarian: ухапване от змия n (uhapvane ot zmija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛇咬傷／蛇咬伤

• Dutch: slangenbeet (nl) m
• German: Schlangenbiss (de) m
• Hungarian: kígyómarás (hu), kígyóharapás
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pêvêdana mar f

• Portuguese: mordida/picada de cobra f
• Sanskrit: सर्पदंश (sarpadaṃśa)
• Swedish: ormbett n
• Tagalog: tuklaw
• Telugu: పాముకాటు (te) (pāmukāṭu)
• Ternate: tofa

a mixture of cider and lager

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See also

• snakebite and black