ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Snip-snap

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Snip-snap is a verb meaning To shut, close, bite, etc., with a brisk snap.

Meaning

To shut, close, bite, etc., with a brisk snap.

More Meanings

  1. A sharp snapping sound.
  2. (idiomatic) A tart dialogue with quick replies.

Example Sentences

snip-snap short, and interruption smart
The daily snip-snaps and hubbubs between the cross-purposed couple accentuated that tendency in her. After each altercation Mrs. Coley was seized with an hysterical attack, and my services were needed.
He had picked a small section of scrub behind his shanty which the lagoon below cut into paintable patterns, and with easel snip-snapped up and palette set, was going through the essential preliminary of peering at it[.]
No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snap, knap, snam, knip, snib, snig.

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