snakehead
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- noun
- /ˈsneɪkˌhɛd/
- NSFW
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traficante de personas
- Authorities arrested a snakehead who was responsible for smuggling dozens of people into the city.
- smugglers, known as snakeheads
- debt to the snakeheads
Examples
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Snakehead business is booming.
Fiction book (1998) -
The snakeheads pay to get them here, and then they got to work off what they owe.
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Listen, you want to nail these snakeheads, right?
Fiction book (1998) -
Snakeheads, the smugglers, sell them as cheap labor.
Fiction book (1998) -
In order to leave China, a person pays his or her snakehead a down payment—anywhere from $100 to the entire amount owed, depending on the financial situation of his family.
Academic text (1995) -
Many immigrants are forced to rely on a snakehead for their illegal journey across the border.
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The snakehead promised to help them enter the country without getting caught by authorities.
Synonyms
A person who secretly arranges illegal border crossings for migrants, often leading a smuggling gang
Compounds
- Specialized
Freshwater fish from East Asia that breathes air and can live out of water, and is harmful in North America
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snakehead for a person who arranges illegal travel comes from a Chinese phrase meaning 'snake head', used for people who lead secret groups; the 'head' idea shows they are the leader who plans and guides hidden journeys.