Snip

/snɪp/ · verb

Meaning

To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.

His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.

By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.

"No, Jo, it wasn't one bit crowded, there was room enought ^([sic]) for everyone," she burbled on. "And we were there, and all these other wymeen too, of all shapes, sizes, and colors..." "Hmpgh! Very politically correct!" Jo snipped.

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

That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.

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• snips
• snipping
• snipped

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