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blue racer

noun

  1. a bluish racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of Ohio to eastern Iowa.


blue racer

noun

  1. a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris , of the US
“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 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.

The blue racer seems well adapted to hunt voles and probably preys on them extensively.

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.

The "hoop snake" was quite as authentic to us as the blue racer, although no one had actually seen one.

As we did so, a pale blue racer streaked by our tail-lamp with the roar of an avalanche.

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