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snake-bite

snake-bite is the alternative form of snakebite.

Meaning of snakebite

Noun

snakebite (countable and uncountable, plural snakebites)

  1. (countable, literal) The bite of a snake.
    • Mohamed's father said his son was a studious young man with a passion for soccer. "He was someone that we all thought would go very far," he said. Mohamed was the third member of his family to suffer a fatal snakebite within 12 months.2022 November 7, Sam Bradpiece, “At Guinea's only specialized snakebite clinic, doctors need luck and antivenom”, in NPR
  2. (alcoholic beverages) A cocktail made with equal parts lager and hard cider.
    • We agreed to go down to the bar and get a snakebite together, […]2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 231
  3. (countable) A pair of lip piercings below the lower lip, resembling the fangs of a snake.
    • Ellie recently got a navel piercing and snakebites.

Forms of snake-bite

pluralsnake-bites

Questions about snake-bite

What is snake-bite the alternative form of?
Snake-bite is the alternative form of snakebite.

Words near snake-bite in the dictionary

  1. snake's head
  2. snake's heads
  3. snake's tongue
  4. snake's-head
  5. snake's-heads
  6. snake-bite
  7. snake-bites
  8. snake-cased
  9. snake-eating cobra
  10. snake-eating cobras
  11. snake-eel

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