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Webster 1913 Edition
Anaconda
Anˊa-con′da
,Noun.
[Of Ceylonese origin?]
(Zool.)
A large South American snake of the Boa family (
Eunectes murinus
), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris
) of Ceylon. Webster 1828 Edition
Anaconda
ANACOND'A
,Noun.
Definition 2024
anaconda
anaconda
English
Noun
anaconda (plural anacondas)
- Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. Their length can grow to as much as 5 m (15 ft).
- (by extension, slang, vulgar) ****.
- 1992, Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back", Mack Daddy:
- My anaconda don't want none / Unless you got buns, hon
- 2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game, Signet (2002), ISBN 9781101142998, unnumbered page:
- Womack went into the bedroom and checked on his two boys. When I headed to the bathroom to drain my anaconda, I caught a profile of him standing in the doorway, smiling down on the little rascals.
- 2006, Christopher Darrick Odom, Visa Versa: Black Men Suffer in the Dating Game Too!, iUniverse (2006), ISBN 9780595403516, page xi:
- I have chased after white women to find they only wanted to dance with my anaconda and weren't interested in me as a partner.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:anaconda.
- 1992, Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back", Mack Daddy:
Synonyms
- (****): see also Wikisaurus:****.
Derived terms
Translations
any of various large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes
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