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Snake vs Sluff - What's the difference?

snake | sluff |

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 an acronym sluff is

(slang|us|air force) short little ugly fat fellow (or fucker); us airforce nickname for the a-7 bomber.

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!
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    • , 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 .
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  • (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

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    Anagrams

    * *

    sluff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * slough

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
    • That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
    • This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
  • An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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    • , passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (to shed or to slide off).
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  • ignore, shrug (off)
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  • (discard).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
  • to avoid working
    • He's sluffing off somewhere.

    Derived terms

    * sluffy

    Anagrams

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