• Snakehead

    Noun

    snakehead

    (plural snakeheads)
    1. (fish) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, .
    2. (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
      • 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10Why 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.
    3. A showy perennial plant, , found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
    4. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
    5. The Guinea-hen flower, .
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