Definition of "eel-like" [eel-like]

• Resembling an eel by having a long, serpentine body. (adjective)

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• "Studied political science and economics at Waseda University; learned free-market economic policies at the Matsushita Institute Political career began in regional assembly in 1987 In 1993, elected for the first of five terms to the Diet Served as finance minister in the cabinet of departing Prime Minister Naoto Kan over the past 14 months "I'll never be a goldfish in a scarlet robe, but like a loach in muddy waters, I'll work hard for the people, to move politics forward," Mr. Noda said, referring to an eel-like fish often found in Japanese rice paddies."
• "While generations of children have delighted in his Peter and the Wolf, some graduating to the sparkling Symphony No 1 or the eel-like chromaticisms of Lieutenant Kijé, on the whole British audiences remain impervious to this Soviet-Ukrainian's charms."
• "The brothers — normally the captains of the Time Bandit, as seen on Deadliest Catch — travel to sea after viewing footage of an unusually shaped eel-like creature dipping in and out of the water."