snip
/snɪp/ verb C2- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors. · I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
- 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.
He/she/it snips · Past snipped · Past participle snipped · -ing form snipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- snip
- He/she/it
- snips
- Past
- snipped
- Past participle
- snipped
- -ing form
- snipping
From the library
“You can see that it was a very short-bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over ‘keep away.’”
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