snakehead
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Noun
[edit]snakehead (plural snakeheads)
- (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
- 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:
- Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.
- (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
- 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10:
- Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
- (US, rail transport) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
- The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.
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