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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snakeskin
noun
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▪ And a number of long-haired young men, with leather jackets, tight trousers and snakeskin boots, bustled into the restaurant.
▪ He had snakeskin boots and a matching snakeskin guitar case.
▪ He wasn't looking at her - he was looking at me, and there was a snakeskin feel to his face.
▪ LEFT-HANDED Lag Rockline, red snakeskin, 4 months old, £625 ono.
▪ Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before.
▪ The expensive item slithered off his back like a shed snakeskin.
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snakeskin

n. The skin of a snake

Wikipedia
Snakeskin

Snakeskin may either refer to the shed skin of a living snake after moulting or to a type of leather that is made from the hide of a dead snake.

Snakeskin (film)

Snakeskin is an award-winning New Zealand film directed by Gillian Ashurst and Produced by Vanessa Sheldrick from Cowgirl Productions. The story focuses on Alice ( Melanie Lynskey) and her best friend Johnny ( Dean O'Gorman), who embark on a road trip across New Zealand. Along the way they pick up a hitch-hiker named Seth ( Boyd Kestner), who is on the run from a gang of skinheads (led by Oliver Driver) and a group of drug dealers. The film's New Zealand cinema release began on 11 October 2001. The film has never officially been released in the US or the UK, but it has been shown in the U.K. on the 'Movies for men' TV channel several times.

Snakeskin (song)

"Snakeskin" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Gyroscope, from the album Breed Obsession. It was released as the first single from the album on 27 October 2007, which peaked at No. 30 on the ARIA Singles Chart. "Snakeskin" was listed at No. 16 in national radio Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2007. The CD version of the EP contained two previously unreleased B-sides while the digital release from iTunes included a third unreleased B-side.

"Spending some time in hibernation whilst writing this album has made for some great progressions… 'Snakeskin' is a great representation of our head space and expresses a lot of the emotions and directions we have taken in the creation of our 3rd record. Like a snake shedding its well worn skin, these are the days of our lives." Daniel Sanders

The "Snakeskin" video was shot in Wiltshire, near Stonehenge, south of London. The video has the band playing in the middle of a 200-metre crop circle that was made specifically for the shoot. It is the same farm where the Led Zeppelin crop circle was made that features on the cover of the group's Remasters compilation album.

"Snakeskin" was featured in all Network 10 promotions for the 2008 Australian Football League season. The song also won two WAMi Awards for 'Best Single' and 'Best Video'.

Snakeskin (disambiguation)

Snakeskin may refer to:

  • Snakeskin, a material that is made from the skin of a snake
  • Snakeskin (song), a song by Australian band Gyroscope
  • Snakeskin (film), a New Zealand film
  • Snakeskin (band), a side project of Tilo Wolff from Lacrimosa

and also:

  • Snakeskin Glacier
  • Snakeskin gourami, a species of gourami that is important both as a food fish and as an aquarium fish
  • Snakeskin grisette (Amanita ceciliae), a basidiomycete fungus species
  • Snake skin hunter slug (Chlamydephorus dimidius), a land slug species endemic to South Africa
  • Snakeskin liverwort (Conocephalum conicum), a plant species
  • Dr. Snakeskin (aka Darius James, born 1954), an African American author
  • The Snake’s Skin, a novel by prominent Georgian writer Grigol Robakidze
  • Waukon Decorah (c. 1780–1868), a prominent Ho-Chunk warrior and orator during the Winnebago War of 1827 and the Black Hawk War of 1832

Usage examples of "snakeskin".

The aspiring witchman glided noiselessly across the room, like one of the creatures for whom he seemed to have such affinity, and looking, in snakeskin cape and Ray-Ban sunglasses, like a Hollywood Boulevard vampire.

His talons connected several times with something that felt like snakeskin, tearing through it to the flesh beneath, and he clenched any time he was able to, so that he might rend away a chunk of meat.

Thanks to a passing waiter, she nursed a champagne cocktail as she studied a pair of stunning snakeskin evening sandals.

A somewhat seedy looking boy, perhaps a disfavored son from one of the lesser Houses, engaged a cobbler in conversation while a confederate opened his voluminous mantle to slip an expensive pair of snakeskin boots inside.

He had found a wad of pages from a glossy magazine, a knife, a folded plastic-protected map, a plastic straw and a handworked snakeskin pouch heavy with crystalline cocaine.

Murphy eyed the new snakeskin bandolier with its three quickwood stabbing-points across Valentine's chest.

His miserable eyes wandered around the room to worms, deer embryos, rhinoceros beetles, termite eggs and dog intestines suspended in formaldehyde, and butterflies and snakeskins pinned to boards.

He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.

His had a fringe of snakeskins tacked to the roofpoles, at least thirty of them.

An identical mess carpeted the dirt, and Ray’s shelter remained intact, the fringe of rotting snakeskins still hanging from the roofpoles—but that was not what had drawn my attention.

They looked like snakeskins, he thought uneasily: silver serpent hides that were stiff and dry yet also shiny and bright.

They did appear to be snakeskins with scale patterns, but the material was of a light metal.

So far his men had found an amazing assortment of junkold maps, charts, snakeskins, boxes of teeth, disgusting unidentifiable organs pickled in centuries-old alcoholbut not one thing that resembled an actual clue.

Images of autumn leaves and molted snakeskins at the novel's close signal mystical death and rebirth, the theme of the Grail legends.

Parker went over to the foot of the bed, seeing the clothing scattered all around the room like used snakeskins on a hot rock, and rapped the gun barrel against the brass footboard.