Snake
See also: snake
English
Proper noun
Snake
- The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- (video games) An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.
- (geography) A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
German Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German snāke, from Old Saxon *snako, from Proto-Germanic *snakô. Cognate with English snake.
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