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Snip   /snɪp/   Listen
noun
Snip  n.  
1.
A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
2.
A small shred; a bit cut off.
3.
A share; a snack. (Obs.)
4.
A tailor. (Slang)
5.
Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.


verb
Snip  v. t.  (past & past part. snipped; pres. part. snipping)  To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. "Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject." "The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores... but I snipped some of it for my own share."





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"Snip" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Weavers and Skinners, And what they boiled for their Sunday dinners? What plates the Bugsbys had on the shelf, Crockery, china, wooden, or delf? And if the parlour of Mrs. O'Grady Had a wicked French print, or Death and the Lady? Did Snip and his wife continue to jangle? Had Mrs. Wilkinson sold her mangle? What liquor was drunk by Jones and Brown? And the weekly score they ran up at the Crown? If the cobbler could read, and believed in the Pope? And how the Grubbs were off for soap? If the Snobbs ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... Snip—snip—the scissors cut steadily through the crisp cotton goods. "Yes, indeed, you've got that!" the District Nurse said with loving tenderness. She did not look up from her work; at that minute she did not ...
— Gloria and Treeless Street • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... I had seen several of the men snip the head from a rattlesnake with a single offhand shot—yes, they all carried their weapons easily and wontedly. But the target of an immobile can lacked in stimulation to ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... said, "I can't help feeling sorry for beautiful curls such as yours, Mariana Vikentievna, falling under the merciless snip of a pair of scissors, but it doesn't arouse antipathy in me. In any case, your example might even... even ... ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... The 'snip' did not take long over his business; for he and his assistant, after putting their tapes round us, and punching 'Ugly,' who would stoop, to make him really stand upright, promised that we should all have our new clothes ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson


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