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snake eyes en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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:
  2. (plural, plural-only, slang) A 7-10 split.

Coordinates

boxcars

Deriveds

come up snake eyes · come up with snake eyes

Synonyms

crabs

Translations (6)

cmn 兩點 /两点 (two ones after rolling two dice) · es ojos serpentinos (two ones after rolling two dice) · es duplo uno (two ones after rolling two dice) · ja ピンぞろ (two ones after rolling two dice) · hu kígyószem (two ones after rolling two dice) · it ambasso (two ones after rolling two dice)