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hoop snake
noun
- any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
hoop snake
noun
- any of various North American snakes, such as the mud snake ( Farancia abacura ), that were formerly thought to hold the tail in the mouth and roll along like a hoop
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hoop snake1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences
He stretched his neck and saw that which suggested an overgrown hoop-snake rolling down the hill.
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The "hoop snake" was quite as authentic to us as the blue racer, although no one had actually seen one.
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It is applied also to the southern hoop-snake (Abastor erythrogrammus).
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I confess I was deceived in—I won't say that man, but that hoop-snake.
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I heard an old hunter say he once stood by a lone tree on the prairie and saw a hoop-snake come rolling toward the tree.
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