Snip

Quick meaning: Snip is a verb meaning To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

Meaning

To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

More Meanings

1. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
2. To break off; to snatch away.
3. (informal) To circumcise.
4. (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
5. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
6. To speak or say in a snippish manner.
7. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.

Example Sentences

That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.

I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.

It was true about the fanmaking; the table and floor were littered with snips of paper.

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […]some of it for my own share.

Word Forms

• snips
• snipping
• snipped

Synonyms for snip

Depending on context, synonyms include trim, crop, clip, snippet, dress, prune.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clipping, lop, clip, dress, trim, cut back.

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