Definition of "snakelike" [snakelike]

• Resembling a snake. Long, thin and flexible; waving about in a snake-like manner. (adjective)
• Like that of a snake; as, a snakelike tongue (adjective)

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• "But the clerk was calling the snakelike police officer this very moment, probably."
• "All the time he was chanting the old man kept up a kind of snakelike movement in his body, which seemed to fit the chant and make it part of him."
• "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007, almost finished him off, as his hesitant courtship of a fellow Hogwarts student (the demure Cho Chang) proceeded simultaneously with the onslaughts of a rampant snakelike essence from within his own brain."