snakehead

snake +‎ head

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snakehead (plural snakeheads)

1. (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
   • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:

     Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.

2. (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
   • 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10:

     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.

3. (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person.
4. A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
5. 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.
6. The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.

• northern snakehead

• snakehead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia