Meaning of SNIP
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- [n] the act of clipping or snipping
- [n] a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
- [v] cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of"dress the plants in the garden"
- [v] sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
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| | Synonyms: | | clip, clip, clipping, crop, cut back, dress, lop, nip, nip off, prune, snip off, snippet, snipping, trim |
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| | See Also: | | cut, cut, cutting, cutting off, disbud, piece, pinch, poll, pollard, shear, thin out, top | |
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\Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snipping}.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with
shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to
break off; to snatch away.
Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
age was subject. --Fuller.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
--De Foe.
\Snip\, n.
1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak.
2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman.
3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange
4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley.
5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
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