Fang
noun
One of the long, sharp, pointed teeth that some animals have.
The snake raised its head and showed its fangs.
Often appears as...
- snake's fang
- wolf's fang
verb
To attack or bite with fangs.
The dog tried to fang the intruder.
Often appears as...
- fang it
- fang into
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A watercourse, drain, or ditch.
The farmland was irrigated through numerous fangs.
noun
The arm or spindle of a spinning wheel, on which the thread is wound.
She wound the thread around the fang of the spinning wheel.
noun
One of the long, sharp, pointed teeth that some animals have.
The snake raised its head and showed its fangs.
Often appears as...
- snake's fang
- wolf's fang
verb
To attack or bite with fangs.
The dog tried to fang the intruder.
Often appears as...
- fang it
- fang into
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A watercourse, drain, or ditch.
The farmland was irrigated through numerous fangs.
noun
The arm or spindle of a spinning wheel, on which the thread is wound.
She wound the thread around the fang of the spinning wheel.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Teeth
Refers specifically to long, pointed teeth used for biting and tearing.
In horror movies, vampires often reveal elongated fangs.
Pro Tip 2/3Dangerous Imagery
Used metaphorically to suggest aggression or the presence of danger.
The villain's fang-like words left the audience in fear.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Human
Humans don't have fangs. The word is for animals only.
Despite his sharp teeth, he doesn't have true fangs like a wolf.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Teeth
Refers specifically to long, pointed teeth used for biting and tearing.
In horror movies, vampires often reveal elongated fangs.
Pro Tip 2/3Dangerous Imagery
Used metaphorically to suggest aggression or the presence of danger.
The villain's fang-like words left the audience in fear.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Human
Humans don't have fangs. The word is for animals only.
Despite his sharp teeth, he doesn't have true fangs like a wolf.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Teeth
Refers specifically to long, pointed teeth used for biting and tearing.
In horror movies, vampires often reveal elongated fangs.
Pro Tip 2/3Dangerous Imagery
Used metaphorically to suggest aggression or the presence of danger.
The villain's fang-like words left the audience in fear.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Human
Humans don't have fangs. The word is for animals only.
Despite his sharp teeth, he doesn't have true fangs like a wolf.
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
perhaps it's because humans, as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe, actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs. Maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal. Because the one advantage we have in the wilderness -- again, it's not our fangs, our claws or our speed --
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Finding Little Owls in...
Now look at it, it knows it knows it's alright with you, but it knows, Oh, there you go. So those pedipalps, those just like, help it eat, right? Yeah. Yeah, there we go. Oh, I can see the fangs and I don't like it. They don't jump do they?
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Watch this if you're...
in hollowed out tree buttresses or burrows made by other animals. It must be large enough to defend its nest— in fact, the bushmaster is the largest viper in the world, reaching lengths of over 11 feet, with huge fangs and deadly venom.
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Slo-Mo Deadly Viper...
incredible absolutely incredible saw that the mouth open almost said that it was fully wide like that almost creating a stabbing kind of shape rather than that a downward strike and the fangs are
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Survival Guide: Anaconda...
Back it sinks its fangs deep into a Seuss's flesh his survival depends on extricate in his hand what would you do in the situation should you pull your hand straight out of the snake's mouth
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Encoding culture PIPE...
my story begins in the jungles of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is renowned for to profound biological and linguistic diversity scientists have recently found a frog with giant fangs
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The Blood-Suckers Ball PIPE...
vampires and everything in between many partygoers are self-proclaimed vampire lifestyles people who embrace the look if not the deep fake fangs erotic costumes and ghostly contact
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Elephants Struggle to...
left fang and the others protect themselves with dust elephants can't sweat they seek out even the smallest hint of shade what they do now was thought to be a myth
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Eating Bats PIPE National...
of nightmares and horror movies just say that and many think of vampires sinking their fangs and two helpless victims even in the real world bats are thought
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The Dangers of Being a...
The poison jets from hypodermic fangs. The lions are lucky, one drop in the eye would blind them for life.
Video examples
Are we born to run? PIPE...
perhaps it's because humans, as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe, actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs. Maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal. Because the one advantage we have in the wilderness -- again, it's not our fangs, our claws or our speed --
Video examples
Finding Little Owls in...
Now look at it, it knows it knows it's alright with you, but it knows, Oh, there you go. So those pedipalps, those just like, help it eat, right? Yeah. Yeah, there we go. Oh, I can see the fangs and I don't like it. They don't jump do they?
Video examples
Watch this if you're...
in hollowed out tree buttresses or burrows made by other animals. It must be large enough to defend its nest— in fact, the bushmaster is the largest viper in the world, reaching lengths of over 11 feet, with huge fangs and deadly venom.
Video examples
Slo-Mo Deadly Viper...
incredible absolutely incredible saw that the mouth open almost said that it was fully wide like that almost creating a stabbing kind of shape rather than that a downward strike and the fangs are
Video examples
Survival Guide: Anaconda...
Back it sinks its fangs deep into a Seuss's flesh his survival depends on extricate in his hand what would you do in the situation should you pull your hand straight out of the snake's mouth
Video examples
Encoding culture PIPE...
my story begins in the jungles of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is renowned for to profound biological and linguistic diversity scientists have recently found a frog with giant fangs
Video examples
The Blood-Suckers Ball PIPE...
vampires and everything in between many partygoers are self-proclaimed vampire lifestyles people who embrace the look if not the deep fake fangs erotic costumes and ghostly contact
Video examples
Elephants Struggle to...
left fang and the others protect themselves with dust elephants can't sweat they seek out even the smallest hint of shade what they do now was thought to be a myth
Video examples
Eating Bats PIPE National...
of nightmares and horror movies just say that and many think of vampires sinking their fangs and two helpless victims even in the real world bats are thought
Video examples
The Dangers of Being a...
The poison jets from hypodermic fangs. The lions are lucky, one drop in the eye would blind them for life.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Christopher McDougall
American Author
Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.
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Scott Foley
American Actor
I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.
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Plautus
Roman Playwright
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
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James Patterson
American Author
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
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Natasia Demetriou
English Comedian
Who doesn't want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It's like dress-up.
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Ben Mendelsohn
Australian Actor
The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Joan Jett
American Musician
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
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Jeaniene Frost
American Author
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
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William Bratton
American Public Servant
You have to bare your fangs once in a while.
Quote examples
Christopher McDougall
American Author
Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.
Quote examples
Scott Foley
American Actor
I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.
Quote examples
Plautus
Roman Playwright
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Quote examples
James Patterson
American Author
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
Quote examples
Natasia Demetriou
English Comedian
Who doesn't want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It's like dress-up.
Quote examples
Ben Mendelsohn
Australian Actor
The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
Quote examples
Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Quote examples
Joan Jett
American Musician
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Quote examples
Jeaniene Frost
American Author
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
Quote examples
William Bratton
American Public Servant
You have to bare your fangs once in a while.
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