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snake
noun- the penis US, 1997
- Steve Tyler’s snake, like Bull Moose Jackson’s before, is a big ten-inch[.] — Chuck Eddy, Stairway to Hell, p. 15, 1991
- You fucking better get on my team, Gus, or you’re gonna have a fucking scar down there where you snake used to play. — Stephen J. Cannell, King Con, p. 142, 1997
- among anglers, a very long rag-worm used as bait UK
- — Bournemouth Echo, 4 July 1968
- in electric line work, insulated rubber line hose US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 16, 1980
- a long, serpentine putt US, 1962
- — Dawson Taylor, How to Talk Golf, p. 61, 1985
- a subway, an underground system US
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 165, 1960
- a surfer who surfs in another surfer’s right of way US
- — Mitch McKissick, Surf Lingo, 1987
- an informer US
- Blood wanted to send two or three snakes (spies or intelligence agents) to check the location and strength of the Rovers. — Harrison E. Salisbury, The Shook-up Generation, p. 37, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 106, 1996
- Have you heard about that snake then? — The Guardian, 17 February 2000
- “There’s an informer on the spur, lads!” he proclaimed, pointing towards the cell where Grady was installing his few intact possessions. “Ssssss,” came the reply in chorus. (An informer in prison is known as a grass from the phrase “snake in the grass”.) — The Guardian, 30 March 2000
- in foot-powered scootering, another rider who cuts in, especially one who take’s another’s line into a trick UK
- — Ben Sharpe, Scooter Crazy, p. 42, 2000
- an AH-1G Cobra attack helicopter US The US Army’s primary gunship in Vietnam.
- They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don’t leave ’em. — Platoon, 1986
- Don’t like to me in this kind of mess / Asked the snakes for help and they said yes. — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 110, 1986
- You’re doin’ a great job, two six. I have some fast movers and snakes coming your way. — Harold Coyle, Trial by Fire, p. 414, 1992
- “The two man crew from the snake, Blue Max 27, is on the ground without a radio.” — Paul Morgan, The Parrot’s Beak, p. 3, 2000
- a railway pointsman US
From the serpentine “S” on the pointsman’s union pin. - — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 268, 1946
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 141, 1977
- a homosexual man US
- — Miguel Pinero, Short Eyes, p. 126, 1975: Glossary of Slang
▶ able to crawl under a snake; lower than a snake’s belly
morally reprehensible; despicable AUSTRALIA, 1932
Variations include “a snake’s hips”, since World War 2, and “able to crawl under a snake’s belly with a top hat on”, 1959.- To pick on a bloke for a thing like that [a speech defect] well, you could crawl under a snake in a top hat and stilts. — Alex Buzo, The Roy Murphy Show, 1971
- You stab me in the back / You’re lower than a snake / Your brains are in you’re sack / You two-faced fucking fake[.] — The Kiss of Morning, 21 October 2002
▶ the snake
in firefighting, the hose UK, 1984
Used by the London Fire Brigade. |