snip

Plural: snips

Noun

• a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
• the act of clipping or snipping
• The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
• A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
• A small amount of something; a pinch.
• A piece cut out by snipping.
• Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
• A vasectomy.
• A small or weak person, especially a young one.
• An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
• An impertinent or mischievous person.
• A share or portion; a snack.
• A tailor.
• A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.

Verb

Verb Forms: snipped, snipping, snips

• To cut something quickly with short, sharp strokes, as with scissors.
• sever or remove by pinching or snipping
• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
• To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
• To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
• To break off; to snatch away.
• To circumcise.
• To perform a vasectomy.
• To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
• To speak or say in a snippish manner.

Examples

• I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
• I had to SNIP off a letter from my intended word to fit it on the board.
• That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.

Synonyms

clip, clipping, crop, cut back, dress, lop, nip, nip off, prune, snip off, snippet, snipping, trim

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