The whole sentence is The taxi-on-demand service Uber lets you snake the cab line.
.
And why is snake used here? Thanks!
English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this communityThe word snake here serves as a verb and not noun. It means that using the service of Uber, you can have a taxi-on-demand and get rid of standing in a cab line by moving through it.
More about the verb snake here.
snake
as a verb kind of implied that one moved very slowly, (share some similarity with crawl
)? .. But then I remembered how smooth the snake looks like and how smoothly it moves, and I think I've got the idea of using it in that snake the cab line
context. @Maulik V
Feb 20, 2014 at 6:26