What some snakes do is some kind of "bucking". They stiffen up and push something away in a swift motion. Almost "jump" like.
Males will combat that way, but snakes will also do it when you pick them up and they want to be left alone.
I have visions of people stroking and massaging their poor snake while they, in desperation, try to "buck" the offender off, and the keeper gets all excited thinking the snake "likes it" and is humping them...
OMG, it is really difficult to write ANY of this without it sounding dirty in some way. I can see you all sitting there, snickering
edited for the truly dirty minded: their snake, as in their PET snake, the animal kind..
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