snakehead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
noun
A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
American usage
noun
Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.
Example Sentences
- "Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it."
- "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."
- "[…] but snakeheads involved in air smuggling may venture into sea smuggling. A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both."
Etymology
Usage
- Slang
- American usage
- Derogatory