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snarelike

snarelike adjective: resembling a snare (musical instrument), or the sound of a snare.

Adjective

snarelike (comparative more snarelike, superlative most snarelike)

  1. Resembling a snare (musical instrument), or the sound of a snare.
    • […] divining gender identity and black expressivity with gyrating hips and snarelike hand claps.1998, Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History
  2. Resembling a snare (trap).
    • A known loop is a snarelike loop that is passed through an endoscope's working channel via a flexible delivery catheter.2013, Coagulants—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition

Forms of snarelike

comparativemore snarelike
superlativemost snarelike

Origin of snarelike

From snare + -like.

Questions about snarelike

What does snarelike mean?
Snarelike means resembling a snare (musical instrument), or the sound of a snare.
What part of speech is snarelike?
Snarelike is an adjective.

Words near snarelike in the dictionary

  1. snare drums
  2. snare-picture
  3. snare-pictures
  4. snared
  5. snareless
  6. snarelike
  7. snarer
  8. snarers
  9. snares
  10. Snares penguin
  11. Snares penguins

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