taipan
Plural: taipans
Noun
- A highly venomous snake native to Australia and New Guinea.
- large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia
- A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
- A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background)
- Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.
Examples
- He played TAIPAN, a word as deadly to his opponent’s score as the snake itself in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹, “big shot, rich businessman”), originally as taepan. Related to tycoon, from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun).
Synonyms
Oxyuranus scutellatus
Scrabble Score: 8
taipan: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtaipan: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
taipan: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
taipan: valid Words With Friends Word