snakes
/sneɪks/
snakes is the plural of snake.
snakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snake.
Meaning of snake
Noun
snake (plural snakes)
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates
- A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer
- Synonyms:
- rat, backstabber, betrayer, cockatrice, double-crosser, quisling, ratter, recreant, renegade, serpent
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Synonyms:
- auger, plumber's snake
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- Synonyms:
- wirepuller
- A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- Trouser snake; the penis.
- Synonyms:
- trouser snake
Interjection
- Synonym of snakes alive (“an expression of surprise”).
- "Snakes!" cried the impetuous Westerner, like one speaking before he could stop himself; "suppose there were something in it, after all!"1926, G. K. Chesterton, The Incredulity of Father Brown
- Synonyms:
- snakes alive
Proper noun capitalized: Snakes
Snakes
- plural of Snake
Synonyms of snakes
Phrases with snakes
- cat snakes
- fox snakes
- mud snakes
- rat snakes
- red snakes
- sea snakes
- snakes out
- ball snakes
- beer snakes
- blow snakes
- bull snakes
- corn snakes
130 more phrasesFewer phrases
- curl snakes
- dart snakes
- dice snakes
- file snakes
- hoop snakes
- king snakes
- lyre snakes
- milk snakes
- moon snakes
- pine snakes
- pipe snakes
- rock snakes
- sand snakes
- snow snakes
- tree snakes
- twig snakes
- wart snakes
- whip snakes
- wolf snakes
- word snakes
- worm snakes
- arrow snakes
- black snakes
- blind snakes
- brown snakes
- Congo snakes
- coral snakes
- draft snakes
- earth snakes
- glass snakes
- grass snakes
- green snakes
- house snakes
- joint snakes
- kukri snakes
- lined snakes
- marsh snakes
- mulga snakes
- myall snakes
- night snakes
- penis snakes
- pilot snakes
- queen snakes
- snakes alive
- Snakes Plain
- tiger snakes
- water snakes
- carpet snakes
- coffee snakes
- dragon snakes
- fierce snakes
- flying snakes
- garden snakes
- garter snakes
- gopher snakes
- horned snakes
- indigo snakes
- ladder snakes
- parrot snakes
- rattle snakes
- ribbon snakes
- shadow snakes
- smooth snakes
- thirst snakes
- thread snakes
- United Snakes
- wampum snakes
- chicken snakes
- hognose snakes
- leopard snakes
- rainbow snakes
- red rat snakes
- scarlet snakes
- sunbeam snakes
- thunder snakes
- trouser snakes
- crayfish snakes
- De Kay's snakes
- gardener snakes
- Jewnited Snakes
- mangrove snakes
- one-eyed snakes
- plumbing snakes
- ringneck snakes
- stiletto snakes
- harlequin snakes
- olive sea snakes
- patchnose snakes
- plumber's snakes
- tentacled snakes
- caution to snakes
- mad as cut snakes
- pine woods snakes
- slaty-grey snakes
- three-step snakes
- Aesculapian snakes
- cautions to snakes
- snakes and ladders
- Texas blind snakes
- Texas lined snakes
- western rat snakes
- black pepper snakes
- Futsing wolf snakes
- small-scaled snakes
- smooth green snakes
- snakes in the grass
- Texas garter snakes
- Ulmer's reed snakes
- flat-tail sea snakes
- De Kay's brown snakes
- eastern indigo snakes
- Gould's hooded snakes
- Jamaican blind snakes
- Javan tubercle snakes
- Mexican garter snakes
- purple-glossed snakes
- gold-ringed cat snakes
- Great Plains rat snakes
- one-eyed trouser snakes
- red-bellied black snakes
- Big Bend patchnose snakes
- blue-bellied black snakes
- large-headed water snakes
- yellow-bellied sea snakes
- rough-backed litter snakes
- eleven-striped blind snakes
- Boettger's two-headed snakes
- common purple-glossed snakes
- Jewnited Snakes of Amerikkka
- crooked as a barrel of snakes
Words that rhyme with snakes
Questions about snakes
- What does snakes mean?
- Snakes means synonym of snakes alive (“an expression of surprise”).
- What is snakes the plural of?
- Snakes is the plural of snake.
- What part of speech is snakes?
- Snakes can be an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce snakes?
- Snakes is pronounced /sneɪks/.
Words near snakes in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snakes (page history and authors); Snakes (page history and authors); snake (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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