snakehead en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From snake + head.
Meanings
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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:
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(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:[…] but snakeheads involved in air smuggling may venture into sea smuggling. A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both.
2011, David Kyle, Rey Koslowski, Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, page 190:
- (US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) A black person.
- A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
- (US) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
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(alt-of, alternative, rare) Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.
alt of snake's head
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| snakeheads | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
northern snakehead · giant snakehead
Translations (30)
bcl talusog (fish) · pam bulig (fish) · pl chiński szmugler (smuggler) · vi cá xộp (fish) · ms haruan (fish) · ko 가물치과 (fish) · fr passeur (smuggler) · id gabus (fish) · cjm ꨌꨰꨆꨵꩀ (fish) · pl żmijogłów (fish) · ja ライギョ (fish) · vi cá đô (fish) · cjm ꨁꨆꩆ ꨌꨰꨆꨵꩀ (fish) · as গৰৈ (fish) · ru змееголо́вая ры́ба (fish) · fr ophicéphale (fish) · vi cá tràu (fish) · fi käärmeenpää (fish) · th ปลาช่อน (fish) · ja 雷魚 (fish) · my ငါးရံ့ (fish) · vi cá quả (fish) · vi cá chuối (fish) · de Schlangenkopffisch (fish) · cmn 鱧 /鳢 (fish) · tl dalag (fish) · as শ’ল (fish) · vi cá sộp (fish) · ru змееголов (fish) · vi cá lóc (fish)