coil around (someone or something)

coil around (someone or something)

To twist around someone or something. A reflexive pronoun can be used between "coil" and "around." The explorer froze when he felt the snake coil itself around his leg. That vine is now coiling around the tree—is there any way I can move it? I nearly panicked when I felt something coil itself around my ankle, but it was just an untied shoelace, thank goodness.

See also: around, coil

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coil (itself) around someone or something

[for something or an animal] to wrap itself around someone or something. The monkey's tail coiled itself around the branch. The huge python coiled around poor Roger.

See also: around, coil

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