"snake up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: snakes up [present, singular, third-person], snaking up [participle, present], snaked up [participle, past], snaked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} snake up (third-person singular simple present snakes up, present participle snaking up, simple past and past participle snaked up)
  1. (MLE, slang) To switch sides by resorting to authorities, to become treacherous, to rat. Tags: Multicultural-London-English, slang

Inflected forms

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