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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.