snout

noun

• 1the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal: a sea lion balanced a ball on its snout
• informal a person’s nose: a guard with a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout
• the projecting front or end of something such as a pistol: he was stopped by the snout of her pistol

• 2British informal a cigarette.
• [mass noun] tobacco.

• 3British informal a police informer: his arrest had been the work of some anonymous snout

• 4 (also snout moth) a European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout.

  • Hypsena and other genera, family Noctuidae, in particular the snout (H. proboscidalis)