Definition of "garter snake" []

• Any of various nonvenomous North and Central American snakes of the genus Thamnophis, having longitudinal stripes. (noun)

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• "Brother Billy Bob had put his earphones back on just in time to turn into what a nearby cameraman later de­scribed as "... a thirteen-foot-long garter snake with lep­rosy.""