What is "snake eyes"

n. (context gambling idiomatic English) two ones, after rolling two dice.

n. when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes' [syn: craps]

Snake Eyes is a 1998 conspiracy thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens. It starred Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise and Carla Gugino.

Released in 1998, the film was written by David Koepp and De Palma, and was released to theaters on August 7 of 1998. It cost an estimated $73 million to produce, returned $103 million worldwide and received mixed to negative responses from critics.

Snake eyes is a dice roll of one pip on each die.

In music, Snake Eyes may refer to:

• "Snake Eyes" (song), a 1980 song by The Alan Parsons Project
• "Snake Eyes", a 1991 song by Main Source
• Snake Eyes (Mumford & Sons song), a 2015 song by Mumford and Sons
• Snake Eyes (album), a 2000 album by Killa Tay
• "Snake Eye", a song on the Heatseeker single by AC/DC
• "Snake Eyes", a 2013 song by Amon Amarth
• "Snake Eyes", a 2013 song by Sworn In

In film, Snake Eyes may refer to:

• Snake Eyes (film), a 1998 crime thriller by Brian De Palma and starring Nicolas Cage
• Dangerous Game (1993 film), or Snake Eyes, a 1993 film by Abel Ferrara

In literatures, Snake Eyes may refer to:

• Snake Eyes (novel), a thriller by Joyce Carol Oates, writing as Rosamond Smith
• Snake Eyes, a comics anthology published in the 1990s by Fantagraphics Books
• A mafia novel by Bill Bonanno and Joseph Pistone.

Snake Eyes may also refer to:

• Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Snake Eyes, a professional wrestling throw
• "Snake Eyes", an episode of Camp Lazlo
• Snake Eyez, the gaming name of American professional fighting games player Darryl Lewis

Snake Eyes (also released as Snake-Eyes) is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books, and cartoon series. He is one of the original and most popular members of the G.I. Joe Team, and is most known for his relationships with Scarlett and Storm Shadow. Snake Eyes is one of the most prominent characters in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero franchise, having appeared in every series of the franchise since its inception. He is portrayed by Ray Park in the 2009 live-action film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and the 2013 sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

In gambling in general and the game of Craps in particular, snake eyes is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game and getting only one pip on each die. The pair of pips resembles a pair of eyes, which is appended to the term 'snake' because of the long-standing association of this word with treachery and betrayal. The dictionary of etymology traces that use of the term back to 1929, although it may be traced all the way back to the ancient Roman dice games, where 'Dogs' represented two ones. They referred to this as "the dog throw". In modern parlance, it refers to such a roll in any game involving dice.

Because this is the lowest possible roll, and will often be a loser in many dice games, such as Craps, the term has been employed in a more general usage as a reference to bad luck. In some board games, such as Monopoly, house rules may decide that this roll earns the player a bonus due to it being rare and otherwise disadvantageous.

Snake Eyes is second studio album by rapper Killa Tay. The album was released on January 18, 2000.

"Snake Eyes" is a song by British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project off their 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card, where it appears as the second part of the title suite. It reached No. 67 on the U.S. Billboard Charts in 1981. In Germany it was released as the B-Side of Single "The Gold Bug" which reached No. 40 on the Media Control Charts.

The song was written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, and features Chris Rainbow on lead vocals. The lyrics are from the perspective of a compulsive gambler playing craps, who doesn't intend to stop until he wins.

In an interview, Eric Woolfson said of the song, "I've often, in common with many other writers, been inspired at the oddest moments. And, one of the things that did start the creative juices flowing was actually sitting in casinos in Monte Carlo, with the din going on of people with machines, people talking, people moving about, and all the hustle and bustle that goes on there[...] The joke about the lyric of "Snake Eyes" is that he's betting on something that you can't possibly win, because snake eyes is a bet which loses if seven or eleven comes up, and seven or eleven is a bet which loses if snake eyes comes up. So he's yelling `Snake Eyes! Seven, eleven!', he wants any one of the three, and any of the three is gonna wipe him out."