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copperhead definition

☆ copper·head (käp′ər hed′)

noun

  1. a poisonous North American pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix) with a copper-colored head and dark-brown cross bands
  2. Informal a Northerner who sympathized with the South at the time of the Civil War: so called in the North

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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