copperhead
/kop-er-hed/US // ˈkɒp ərˌhɛd //UK // (ˈkɒpəˌhɛd) //
铜头,铜头公司,铜头蛇,铜板街
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n.名词 noun
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- : a venomous snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern and southern U.S., having a light-brown to copper-red body marked with darker bands.
- : an extremely venomous but sluggish snake, Denisonia superba, of Australia and Tasmania, having a reddish to black body, depending on the region.
- : U.S. History. a Northern Democrat who opposed the Civil War, advocating peace and restoration of the Union even if slavery continued.
- : Military. a finned, 155 mm cannon-launched U.S. Army artillery shell that homes on the target, using the reflection of a laser beam projected by a forward observer.
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Examples
I fully expect the same slur to come out in relation to “Copperhead.”
I'll keep him agin fifty-'leven o' that old snortin' rebel and Copperhead Blowhard Billings.
Then why waste your labors, brave hearts and strong men, In tracking a trail to the Copperhead's den?
I am goaded to these remarks by the strictures of the Copperhead press, but I make them in no spirit of boasting.
The tactics of that Copperhead Camp he talks so much about are hardly applicable to conditions here.
Between the verses the leader would curse the Iowa Senator as a traitor and copperhead.
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