copperhead

Meanings

1. Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
2. A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
3. A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
4. A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
5. Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
6. A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
7. Someone with ginger hair.

1. A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
2. Any member of the Democratic party.

Etymology

From copper + head.