snakehead

noun

1. A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

   “Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.”

2. (slang)A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people.

   “Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.”

   “[…] but snakeheads involved in air smuggling may venture into sea smuggling. A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both.”

3. (US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur)A black person.
4. A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
5. (US)A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
6. (alt-of, alternative, rare)Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.