snake vs tiptoe

snake

noun
  • Trouser snake; the penis. 

  • A series of Bézier curves. 

  • The seventh Lenormand card. 

  • A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake. 

  • A tool to aid cable pulling. 

  • A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. 

  • A treacherous person; a rat. 

  • Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. 

  • An informer; a rat. 

  • A tool for unclogging plumbing. 

verb
  • To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm. 

  • To inform; to rat. 

  • To clean using a plumbing snake. 

  • To follow or move in a winding route. 

  • To steal slyly. 

  • To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out. 

tiptoe

noun
  • The tip of the toe. 

adj
  • Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. 

  • Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. 

verb
  • To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. 

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