英语词汇“snake”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

词汇

snake

释义

snake

Theme: SCHEME

in. to scheme; to plot and plan. (Prisons.)

Lefty is always snaking.He spent a lot of time snaking about that job.

snake

1. noun

the penis US, 1997.

among anglers, a very long rag-worm used as bait UK, 1968.

in electric line work, insulated rubber line hose US, 1980.

a long, serpentine putt US, 1962.

a subway, an underground system US, 1960.

a surfer who surfs in another surfer's right of way US, 1987.

an informer US, 1958.

in foot-powered scootering, another rider who cuts in, especially one who take's another's line into a trick UK, 2000.

an AH-1G Cobra attack helicopter. The US Army's primary gunship in Vietnam US, 1986.

a railway pointsman. From the serpentine 'S' on the pointsman's union pin US, 1946.► able to crawl under a snake; lower than a snake's bellymorally reprehensible; despicable. 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 AUSTRALIA, 1932.► the snakein firefighting, the hose. Used by the London Fire Brigade UK, 1984

2. verb

to have sex from the male perspective US, 2001.

in snowboarding or skateboarding, to cut in front of someone US, 1984.

to go quietly, to move silently. The variant 'snake off' also exists IRELAND, 1958

idiomsnakea snake in the grassused about someone who pretends to be your friend but does something to harm you:She knew what she was doing, that snake in the grass! And she's succeeded in making me lose my home!Cardelli was trying to get money out of Dad - I always thought he was a slimy snake in the grass.snake oil AmEAmEused about something that someone is trying to sell you or trying make you believe, when it does not work or is not true:A lot of the software out there is pure snake oil, but consumers are fooled by glossy packaging.The snake oil has been flowing in rivers on the issue of taxation, and the Republicans still think we believe them.

NotePeople sometimes call someone who sells products that do not work or tells lies a 'snake oil salesman':After the fall of the Soviet Union, the far eastern parts of the country were full of snake-oil salesmen and adventurers, but serious foreign investors were scarce.

snake

1. in. to scheme; to plot and plan. (Prisons.) He spent a lot of time snaking about that job.

2. tv. to steal something. Where did you snake that bike?

See:

(as) mad as a snake
a snake in (one's) bosom
a snake in the grass
banana oil
go at like a boy killing snakes
If it was a snake it woulda bit you
if it was a snake, it would've bit you
like fighting snakes
mad as a snake
nourish a snake in (one's) bosom
nurse a snake in (one's) bosom
nurture a snake in (one's) bosom
one-eyed pants snake
one-eyed snake
one-eyed trouser snake
see snakes
seeing pink elephants
seeing snakes
snake
snake along
snake eyes
snake in the grass
snake oil
snake oil salesman
snakebite medicine
snakes and ladders
trouser snake
viper in one's bosom
viper in one's bosom, (nourish) a

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