snakehead

English

noun
Definitions
  • (fish) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
  • (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
  • A showy perennial plant, , found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
  • A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
  • The , .

Etymology

Compound from English snake + English head (-hood, noun, hood, foremost, or leading part, topmost, suffix indicating a fan enthusiast).

Origin

English

head

Gloss

-hood, noun, hood, foremost, or leading part, topmost, suffix indicating a fan enthusiast

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