• n  any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils

News & Articles

• Hire an inspector to avoid homebuying horrors
  From a 15-foot boa constrictor holed up in the dark to a house ready to collapse in a stiff breeze to electrical wiring that bursts into flames at the flip of a switch, home inspectors have seen it all. And those horror stories could be yours if you...
  June 9, 2013 - Portsmouth Herald
• Real: Hire an inspector to avoid homebuying horrors
  From a 15-foot boa constrictor holed up in the dark to a house ready to collapse in a stiff breeze to electrical wiring that bursts into flames at the flip of a switch, home inspectors have seen it all.
  June 7, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News

Quotes

• Kingsley Amis in San Luis Obispo Tribune
  The boa-constrictor, sex,as Amis called it, obsessed him.
• Rick Hillier in The Independent News
  Hillier says sometimes "we manage to take what is a potential great opportunity and become like a boa constrictor, (and) squeeze the life right out of it :" Well that's a relief, I thought we only did that here ......
• Alice Cooper in The Sun
  Alice says: "When I saw her on TV I shouted, 'That's my snake'. It was an albino boa constrictor called Popcorn I used to have on tour. I hire my snakes now but I used to keep them. They had the run of the house. At one time I was able to fly them...