snakehead

noun5

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. — 2015
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. — 2008
3. •
   A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
4. •
   (slang, offensive) A black person.
5. •
   (US) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.