snip
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snip 
[snip] Pronunciation Key verb, snipped, snip·ping, noun
[snip] Pronunciation Key verb, snipped, snip·ping, noun –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
| 1. | to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like. |
| 2. | to remove or cut off (something) by or as by cutting in this manner: to snip a rose. |
| 3. | to cut with small, quick strokes. |
| 4. | the act of snipping, as with scissors. |
| 5. | a small cut made by snipping. |
| 6. | a small piece snipped off. |
| 7. | a small piece, bit, or amount of anything: a snip of food. |
| 8. | Informal. a small or insignificant person. |
| 9. | Informal. a presumptuous or impertinent person. |
| 10. | snips, small, strong hand shears used by sheet metal workers. |
| 11. | British Informal. a bargain. |
[Origin: 1550–60; orig. uncert.; cf. D, LG snippen to snip, catch, clip]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| snip
(snĭp) Pronunciation Key
v. snipped, snip·ping, snips v. tr. To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes. v. intr. To cut or clip with short, quick strokes. n.
[Dutch or Low German snippen.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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snip
1558, "small piece of cut-out cloth," probably from Du. or Low Ger. snippen "to snip, shred," of imitative origin. The verb is attested from 1586. Snippers "scissors" is from 1593. Snippy is 1727 with the meaning "parsimonious;" the sense of "fault-finding, sharp" is first recorded 1848. Snip-snap-snorum, the card game, is 1755, from Low Ger.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| snip | |
noun | |
| 1. | a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) |
| 2. | the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip] |
verb | |
| 1. | sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip] |
| 2. | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Snip
Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] 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. --Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Snip\, n. 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak. 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman. 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange 4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley. 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
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