"go snake" meaning in English

See go snake in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: en-au-go snake.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes snake [present, singular, third-person], going snake [participle, present], went snake [past], gone snake [participle, past]
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|Of uncertain origin.}} Of uncertain origin. Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> snake}} go snake (third-person singular simple present goes snake, present participle going snake, simple past went snake, past participle gone snake)
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly Canada, informal) To act in an erratic or unrestrained manner. Tags: Canada, idiomatic, informal Synonyms: go crazy, go postal, lose one's temper
    Sense id: en-go_snake-en-verb-eiMEm2px Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for go snake meaning in English (3.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Of uncertain origin."
      },
      "expansion": "Of uncertain origin.",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Of uncertain origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes snake",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going snake",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went snake",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone snake",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> snake"
      },
      "expansion": "go snake (third-person singular simple present goes snake, present participle going snake, simple past went snake, past participle gone snake)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 23, Geoffrey Scotton, “Alberta lumber sales roar: Exports, prices put industry on record pace”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, page D4",
          "text": "Industry watchers note that high prices and record revenues likely mean the sector is headed for strong profits, despite its challenges. / “Prices have gone snake. If you think about it, the tariffs have been a constant over the whole thing. […]” observed James Beck, a forestry professor at the University of Alberta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 November 6, “Cougars slammed by Wesmen”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., page C8",
          "text": "“On the road, refs are going to make their calls; I know that,” Hillis said Friday. “I'm a big boy, I've been on the road before. But there were two really hard fouls (on Wright and Matt Cherkas) . . . and I finally went snake.[”]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 18, Kim Ross-Polito, “Sidelines”, in The Crestline Advocate, number 29, Crestline, OH, page 2",
          "text": "A few days after I got home from the ER, my mother called to yell at me. Since it turned out I wasn't dying, I hadn't told her of my medical adventure. I didn't want to worry her. Big mistake. A family member ratted me out and my little, white-haired mother went snake on me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in an erratic or unrestrained manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_snake-en-verb-eiMEm2px",
      "links": [
        [
          "erratic",
          "erratic"
        ],
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly Canada, informal) To act in an erratic or unrestrained manner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go crazy"
        },
        {
          "word": "go postal"
        },
        {
          "word": "lose one's temper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go snake.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-go_snake.ogg/En-au-go_snake.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-go_snake.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go snake"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Of uncertain origin."
      },
      "expansion": "Of uncertain origin.",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Of uncertain origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes snake",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going snake",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went snake",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone snake",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> snake"
      },
      "expansion": "go snake (third-person singular simple present goes snake, present participle going snake, simple past went snake, past participle gone snake)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Canadian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with unknown etymologies",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 23, Geoffrey Scotton, “Alberta lumber sales roar: Exports, prices put industry on record pace”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, page D4",
          "text": "Industry watchers note that high prices and record revenues likely mean the sector is headed for strong profits, despite its challenges. / “Prices have gone snake. If you think about it, the tariffs have been a constant over the whole thing. […]” observed James Beck, a forestry professor at the University of Alberta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 November 6, “Cougars slammed by Wesmen”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., page C8",
          "text": "“On the road, refs are going to make their calls; I know that,” Hillis said Friday. “I'm a big boy, I've been on the road before. But there were two really hard fouls (on Wright and Matt Cherkas) . . . and I finally went snake.[”]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 18, Kim Ross-Polito, “Sidelines”, in The Crestline Advocate, number 29, Crestline, OH, page 2",
          "text": "A few days after I got home from the ER, my mother called to yell at me. Since it turned out I wasn't dying, I hadn't told her of my medical adventure. I didn't want to worry her. Big mistake. A family member ratted me out and my little, white-haired mother went snake on me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in an erratic or unrestrained manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "erratic",
          "erratic"
        ],
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly Canada, informal) To act in an erratic or unrestrained manner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go crazy"
        },
        {
          "word": "go postal"
        },
        {
          "word": "lose one's temper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go snake.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-go_snake.ogg/En-au-go_snake.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-go_snake.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go snake"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.