Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Multicultural London English, slang)To switch sides by resorting to authorities, to become treacherous, to rat.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The snake coiled up.

    ruЗмея свернулась в клубок. — Selena777

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  2. The snake coils itself up.

    deDie Schlange rollt sich selbst zusammen. — Espi

    orcrist · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Ziri plunged his hand into the basket and raised the snake up by its head.

    Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Forms

snakes up, snaking up, snaked up, snaked up
Base formsnake up · to snake up
3rd person singularsnakes up
Present participlesnaking up
Past simplesnaked up
Past participlesnaked up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysnake up
he, she, itsnakes up

Past simpleLesson

all personssnaked up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave snaked up
he, she, ithas snaked up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill snake up

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
snailC1snakeA1snakessnapB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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