whip snake

1. 1.

   any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

   Synonymswhip-snakewhipsnake

   Broadercolubrid snake

   NarrowercoachwhipCalifornia whipsnakeSonoran whipsnake

   Part ofMasticophis

Questions about whip snake

What does whip snake mean?

whip snake means "any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails".

What is another word for whip snake?

Close synonyms include whip-snake, whipsnake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whip snake a common word?

whip snake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.