meaning of copperheads
1.  A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 
2.  A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. 
3.  venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
						 
