a novel written in 1932 by the British writer Aldous Huxley, which imagines an advanced society of the future in which many people seem to have easy and pleasant lives, but in fact no-one has any freedom. This phrase, which was first used in Shakespeare's play The Tempest, is now used to describe any society like this.
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America