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snake charmer

noun

  1. an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.


snake charmer

noun

  1. an entertainer, esp in Asia, who charms or appears to charm snakes by playing music and by rhythmic body movements
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of snake charmer1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

Isaacs plays the snake-charmer of a neighbor Roman Castavet in the miniseries.

Like a verbal snake charmer, he could swoon them into missteps, even confessions.

Alfred was very much interested in the big snake and the lady whom the lecturer introduced as a snake charmer.

Following the plaintive note, they came at last to the snake-charmer—an old man in a white turban.

Believe me, your gudgeon nibbled because I sang him to the surface--just as the snakes come out for the song of the snake-charmer.

"There is a picture of a snake-charmer in this," he exclaimed.

The influence of music on the serpents seems to be universally assumed as a part of the professional snake-charmer's success.

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