Crossword clues for constrictor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constrictor \Con*strict"or\, n.
That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.
(Anat.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.
(Zo["o]l.) A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, agent noun in Latin form from constrict.
Wiktionary
n. That which constricts or tightens.
WordNet
n. any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
Wikipedia
Constrictor is the sixteenth studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 22, 1986. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest starred on the Twisted Sister track " Be Chrool to Your Scuel". Constrictor was Alice Cooper's first record to feature bass playing by Kip Winger, who would later gain great fame with his own band, Winger.
Cooper sought the aid of heavy metal guitarist Kane Roberts for the album, which resulted in a sound Cooper had never tapped into before. Constrictor exposed a whole new generation of teens to the original shock rocker, returning him to the charts at number 59 after his previous two releases Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa had entirely failed to crack the Top 200. For all intents and purposes, Constrictor was the first "normal" album Cooper had released in nearly eight years, since his records following From the Inside were seen as largely experimental.
The horror series Friday the 13th teamed up with Cooper during this time to produce the theme song for its latest film. The song “He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was written for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and went on to become a #1 hit in Sweden. Also featured in the film were Constrictor’s “ Teenage Frankenstein” and “Hard Rock Summer,” which did not end up on the album.
The track “The Great American Success Story” was apparently intended as the theme song to the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School, but was not actually used.
The demo of “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was totally different from the final album version. A reworked version of the “He's Back” demo landed on the album as “Trick Bag” instead. The version of “He’s Back” that was featured in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was remixed from the album version.
Constrictor also led to one of the most successful tours of the late 1980s, “The Nightmare Returns” tour. Three songs from the album, “Teenage Frankenstein”, “Give It Up” and “The World Needs Guts” were regularly performed on this tour. However, as with all Cooper live songs since Lace and Whiskey, these songs failed to remain in the setlist during subsequent tours. “Teenage Frankenstein” was also played on the tour supporting the follow-up Raise Your Fist and Yell album and occasionally during the 2001 “Descent into Dragontown” tour, whilst “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was played occasionally in the late 1980s and the early 2000s before becoming a frequent part of the setlist on the “Raise the Dead” tour. Apart from these opening and closing songs, nothing from Constrictor had been performed live since 1989 until August 17, 2016 when a particularly powerful and double-bass heavy intense version of the amazingly underrated Cooper classic "The World Needs Guts" was intricately performed for the first time since 1987 at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana which proved to be the absolute highlight of the night as the crowd seemed at once dumbfounded, overjoyed, and flat-out completely surprised by the inclusion of such a rare and driving hallmark of Alice Cooper's 80's metal brilliance.
Constrictor (Frank Payne) is a fictional character, a supervillain turned antihero, appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Usage examples of "constrictor".
To Zipp, it was as if his neck was encircled by a metal boa constrictor.
In recent years, customs inspectors in Florida have arrested a woman trying to smuggle in a rare woolly monkey by hiding it in her overcoat, and a man wearing a vest with special pockets to carry his Australian-palm-cockatoo eggs, and a man carrying a toy Teddy bear stuffed with live tortoises, and a man with a live boa constrictor under his shirt, and a man with pygmy marmosets in his fanny pack.
Did you think that because the constrictor came from another planet, it wouldn't sense you were looking at it?
The constrictor looked away, you looked away, then the constrictor looked back, and promptly noticed the change in the position of your eyes.
However, while he was gingerly poking at them, a boa constrictor glided silently out of the shadows unnoticed.
A snake shaped like a boa constrictor, and about the size of a sea serpent, thrust its snout at Connely like a battering ram.
In fact, many citizens are inclined to censure Grafton for the skunk, but the way I look at it, a character who spends his money the way he does is entitled to come around with a boa constrictor in his pockets if he feels like it.
He had always thought it incredible that the boaconstrictor should be larger than any sea-snake.
He promised me the cutlery would only remain in the apartment for a few days, but I knew that someone with eyes like a starving boa constrictor would be capable of telling anything to anyone.
ASTRAEA: With the assumption, that as I am feminine I must necessarily be in the folds of the horrible constrictor they call Love, and that I leap to the thoughts of their debasing marriage.
It keeps the cutworm from doing its boa constrictor number on the plant.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you’d be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that's the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you'd be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.