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snake | chick |

As a proper noun snake

is (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.

As a noun chick is

a young bird.

As a verb chick is

(obsolete) to sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.

snake

English

(wikipedia snake)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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  • A treacherous person.
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  • A tool for unclogging plumbing.
  • A tool to aid cable pulling.
  • (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

    • Synonyms

    * (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepuller

    Derived terms

    * snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oil

    Verb

    (snak)
  • To follow or move in a winding route.
    • The path snaked through the forest.
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    • , title=Football fever... , group=aus.personals , author=Mark Addinall , date=September 24 , year=1996 , passage=Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen? citation
    The river snakes through the valley.
  • (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
    • He snaked my DVD!
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Home made supercharger ? , group=aus.cars , author=Hyena , date=April 5 , year=2001 , passage=Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.F*CK ME !!  Snaked again ! citation
  • To clean using a plumbing snake.
  • (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out .
    • (Bartlett)
  • (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

    • Synonyms

    * (move in a winding path) slither, wind

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

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    chick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young bird.
  • A young chicken.
  • (slang) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive).
    • Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips — song "Three Cool Cats" by
  • * {{quote-book, year=1927, title=Elmer Gantry, author=Sinclair Lewis
    • , passage=He had determined that marriage now would cramp his advancement in the church and that, anyway, he didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick , who would be of no help in impressing rich parishioners.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Bad moon rising?, author=Tess Pendergrass
    • , passage=I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * chick flick * chickfriend * chick lit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
    • (Chalmers)

    References