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blue racer
noun
- a bluish racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of Ohio to eastern Iowa.
blue racer
noun
- a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris , of the US
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue racer1
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences
One of the workers “screamed his head off” when a blue racer, a nonvenomous snake, wrapped around the man’s leg.
From Washington Times
The blue racer seems well adapted to hunt voles and probably preys on them extensively.
From Project Gutenberg
The blue racer is a Western snaik, about 6 feet in length, ov a pale blue color, and the smartest snaix, for suddenness, in the universe.
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The "hoop snake" was quite as authentic to us as the blue racer, although no one had actually seen one.
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As we did so, a pale blue racer streaked by our tail-lamp with the roar of an avalanche.
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