snick

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verb (used with object)
  1. to cut, snip, or nick.

  2. to strike sharply: He snicked the ball with his cue.

  1. to snap or click (a gun, trigger, etc.).

verb (used without object)
  1. to click.

noun
  1. a small cut; nick.

  2. a click.

  1. Cricket.

    • a glancing blow given to the ball.

    • the ball so hit.

Origin of snick

1
1550–60; origin uncertain; compare Scots sneck to cut (off), Old Norse snikka to whittle

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How to use snick in a sentence

  • There's blamed liars round here snick'rin' in their whiskers, and sayin' that you've backed me down.

  • Now look at the latest returns on the career of my old grammar school chum, snick Butters.

    Odd Numbers | Sewell Ford
  • Why, he would make two of snick, this Hermy would, and he has a pair of shoulders like a truck horse.

    Odd Numbers | Sewell Ford
  • One straight insertion, one snick of a tendon, and it was all over without a stain upon the white towel which lay beneath.

    The Man from Archangel | A. Conan Doyle
  • Then the eldest brother cut off the head; snick-snack, and carried it to the chief.

British Dictionary definitions for snick

snick

/ (snɪk) /


noun
  1. a small cut; notch

  2. a knot in thread, etc

  1. cricket

    • a glancing blow off the edge of the bat

    • the ball so hit

verb(tr)
  1. to cut a small corner or notch in (material, etc)

  2. cricket to hit (the ball) with a snick

Origin of snick

1
C18: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse snikka to whittle, Swedish snicka

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