snake case
The practice of writing identifiers using underscores to separate wordsThe practice of writing identifiers using underscores to separate words.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The practice of writing identifiers using underscores to separate words.
Origin
Coined in 2004 by Ruby programmer Gavin Kistner, from its resemblance to the long body ofCoined in 2004 by Ruby programmer Gavin Kistner, from its resemblance to the long body of a snake, and by analogy with other naming schemes based on lower- and upper-case letters.
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Word family
1 related wordsDerivedsnake-cased
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable