blue racer in British English
noun
a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
blue racer in American English
US
any of various long, bluish North American varieties of blacksnake that can move very rapidly
blue racer in American English
noun
a bluish racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of Ohio to eastern Iowa
Word origin
[1885–90, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, foregut, seminar, sensitization, upsweepImage ofblue racer
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