snake up

verb

To switch sides by resorting to authorities, to become treacherous, to rat.

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Meanings

verbsnake up (third-person singular simple present snakes up, present participle snaking up, simple past and past participle snaked up)

present singular third person snakes up · participle present snaking up · participle past snaked up · past snaked up

  1. Multicultural London EnglishslangTo switch sides by resorting to authorities, to become treacherous, to rat.

    It used to be bare better back. What happened, why did it change? Beef, people snaked up, same reason why we beef everyone, cause they snaked up.

    2025 April 28, “Inside England’s Hidden Mental Health Epidemic...” (29:41 from the start), in Kaynan
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    I hate a niggga that act big tough but get shaked up when them jakes come Way too many of my hood niggas got caked up & got snaked up Thats why i dont fuck w the fake , i get u tossed in a lake w a weight

    2019 August 20, “NaNaNa” (track 9), in Stack Bundi (lyrics), Eclipse
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APA

snake up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snake%20up

MLA

“snake up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snake%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snake up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snake%20up.

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