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snakeheads

snakeheads is the plural of snakehead.

Meaning of snakehead

Noun

snakehead (plural snakeheads)

  1. A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
    • Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1
  2. (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people.
    • 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.2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10
  3. (US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) A black person.
  4. A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
  5. (US) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.

Phrases with snakeheads

Questions about snakeheads

What is snakeheads the plural of?
Snakeheads is the plural of snakehead.

Words near snakeheads in the dictionary

  1. snakefishes
  2. snakeflesh
  3. snakeflies
  4. snakefly
  5. snakehead
  6. snakeheads
  7. snakehood
  8. snakeish
  9. snakekind
  10. snakeless
  11. snakelessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snakeheads (page history and authors); snakehead (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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