snip
IPA: snˈɪp
noun
- 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.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
- (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
- (obsolete, slang) A tailor.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
verb
- 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.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
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Examples of "snip" in Sentences
- I just snipped my hair.
- What did you just snip
- She snipped a wire by accident.
- He snipped a tag attached to his clothes.
- The children snipped a paper and made dolls.
- A sprig is a single stem snipped from the plant.
- Scientists use special enzymes to snip fragments of DNA.
- Request you to take care of these issues and snip the size.
- It would be better to snip away the bad, and leave the good.
- Here is a snip from the part devoted to shock auteur Jim Powers:
- Over here the snip is pretty much only done for religious reasons.
- Here's a snip from the latest post on Kevin Kelly's Technium blog:
- And here's a snip from the aforementioned HuffPo piece by Sam Stein:
- He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon.
- She snipped three roses with astonishing swiftness, -- _snip, snip, snip_!
- And snip from a related article by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides on Wired News:
- Here's a snip from a news article that describes her with the derogatory term "hermaphrodite":
- Over at NYT finance correspondent Floyd Norris 'excellent blog, a snip from a terrifying report out today from The Levy Forecasting Center at Bard College.
- Here's a snip from a feature in New York Magazine about freaked-out workers on Wall Street who gazed into the abyss with a closer view than the rest of us, and made survival plans:
- Just spotted on Twitter (search: mumbai or #mumbai) and via chat sessions here in the Boing Boing tv studio: Attacks in Bombay (NYT), and here's a snip from the Times of India report:
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