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snake eyes

snake eyes noun: two ones, after rolling two dice.

snake eyes: two ones, after rolling two dice
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Noun

snake eyes pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) Two ones, after rolling two dice.
    • It’s as if snake eyes, which should occur randomly only once every 36 times you roll a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times.2021 June 29, Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol, “That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022
    Synonyms:
    crabs
  2. (plural, plural-only, slang) A 7-10 split.

Synonyms of snake eyes

Origin of snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.

Words formed from snake eyes

Questions about snake eyes

What does snake eyes mean?
Snake eyes means two ones, after rolling two dice.
What part of speech is snake eyes?
Snake eyes is a noun.

Words near snake eyes in the dictionary

  1. snake drafts
  2. snake eagle
  3. snake eagles
  4. snake eel
  5. snake eels
  6. snake eyes
  7. snake fear
  8. snake feeder
  9. snake feeders
  10. snake fence
  11. snake fences

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