Meaning of water snake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
2. A toy consisting of a liquid and (optionally) plastic trinkets encased in a long, soft, plastic torus. It is difficult to grip.

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Examples

“It slips out of your hands easily, like⟳ a water-snake toy.”

“Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place⟳, is like⟳ trying to hold⟳ onto a Water Snake toy—as soon as I think⟳ I have⟳ a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side.”

“Each time I tried to define⟳ it and pin it down to take⟳ a closer look⟳, it seemed to slip⟳ away from me like⟳ one of those water snake toys that you can never hold⟳ on to. And then one day I finally discovered the problem.”

“Or to put⟳ it differently, tactility reveals the body as a single self-enclosed surface, like⟳ a Klein bottle or one of those “water snake” toys, a kid's novelty, in its own⟳ way a polymorphous sleeve or screen over which libidinous and[…]”

“In this Order⟳, "toy water snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics.”

“She imagined a long pink tube with a winking hole at the end⟳ sliding from a body, like⟳ a grisly penis or one of those water-snake balloon toys kids give⟳ hand jobs to.”

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