either of two long sharp teeth at the front of the mouths of some animals, such as a snake or dog尖牙；犬齿；（蛇的）毒牙- The snake sank its fangs into its victim.蛇将毒牙刺入猎物身体中。
- The wolf growled and bared its sharp fangs.那匹狼嚎叫着，露出锋利的牙齿。
Topics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + fangSee full entry Word Originlate Old English (denoting ‘booty’ or ‘spoils’), from Old Norse fang ‘capture, grasp’. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th cent.; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense (also mid 16th cent.) reflects the same idea of ‘something that catches and holds’.
