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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
  2. snake and pygmy pie
  3. snake and pygmy pies
  4. snake bean
  5. snake beans
  6. snake bite
  7. snake bites
  8. snake bridge
  9. snake bridges
  10. snake cacti
  11. snake cactus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snake bite (page history and authors); snakebite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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