snakehead

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snakehead

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From snake + head.

noun snakeheads

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.
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.
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.
alternative, rare Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.

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noun fish

한국어	가물치과 gamulchigwa
日本語	ライギョ raigyo, 雷魚 raigyo
中文	鱧 /鳢 lǐ
Français	ophicéphale
Deutsch	Schlangenkopffisch
Русский	змееголо́вая ры́ба zmejegolóvaja rýba, змееголов zmejegolov
Tiếng Việt	cá chuối, cá đô, cá lóc, cá sộp, cá tràu, cá xộp

noun smuggler

Français	passeur

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@misc{snakehead_2026,
  title = {snakehead},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/snakehead},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}