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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snip
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ The rest was snipped off, using fine scissors.
▪ If you snip off one leg of a cockroach, it will shift gaits with the other five without losing a stride.
▪ I could see them now, slowly advancing and snipping off, scissor-like, the vegetation.
▪ They are all currently at a loose end, and loose ends are so easily snipped off.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lois snipped the wires before loosening the screws.
▪ She snipped the thread which held the two pieces of cloth together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Andrews snipped and sewed the masterpiece into one-piece garments.
▪ Carefully snip into the paper along its length, to form a row of thin strands joined at one end.
▪ He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching.
▪ If you snip off one leg of a cockroach, it will shift gaits with the other five without losing a stride.
▪ She snipped crisp green stalks with a pair of scissors.
▪ She has even been snipped out of a photograph taken after her wedding.
▪ They are all currently at a loose end, and loose ends are so easily snipped off.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Below: S. brichardi - a snip at Where to start?
▪ But he talked about the garden and the way Colette attacked the roses with snips.
▪ But she carried in her purse a snip from a London newspaper.
▪ But you and I both know all it would take to wreck your career is one errant snip of the scissors.
▪ For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.
▪ In this case, the husband had searched the garden on his hands and knees, clipping the longer grass with snips!
▪ It merely made a quick snip.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snip

Snip \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.

Snip

Snip \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snip

1550s, "small piece of cut-out cloth," probably from Dutch or Low German snippen "to snip, shred," of imitative origin. Meaning "cut made by scissors" is from 1590s. As a nickname or cant word for a tailor, 1590s. Snip-snap-snorum, the card game, is 1755, from Low German.

snip

"to cut at one light, quick stroke," 1580s, from snip (n.). Related: Snipped; snipping.

Wiktionary
snip

n. 1 The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something. 2 Something acquired for a low price; a bargain. 3 A small amount of something; a pinch. 4 (context definite '''the snip''' euphemistic English) A vasectomy. 5 A small or weak person, especially a young one. 6 (context obsolete English) A share or portion; a snack. 7 (context obsolete slang English) A tailor. vb. 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 (context informal English) To circumcise.

WordNet
snip
  1. n. a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snippet, snipping]

  2. the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping]

  3. [also: snipping, snipped]

snip
  1. v. sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip off]

  2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

  3. [also: snipping, snipped]

Wikipedia
Snip

Snip may refer to:

  • Scotland-Northern Ireland pipeline, a natural gas interconnector
  • Snip (aircraft), a Dutch aircraft made in the 1930s
  • The snip, a minor surgical procedure
  • The Snip, a lake in the United States
  • The Snip (album), a 2002 jazz album
  • Tin snip, a tool used to cut thin sheet metal
  • William Snip (1932–2009), Canadian professional wrestler
  • Single-nucleotide polymorphism, SNP, pronounced snip
  • Snip ( Horse markings): a white marking on the muzzle, between the nostrils of a horse or pony.
Snip (horse)

Snip (1736 – 8 May 1757) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He only won one race, but later became a successful sire. His son Snap was undefeated in his four races and became a multiple-time Champion sire. Snip was bred and owned by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire.

Snip (Modern Family)

"Snip" is the 3rd episode of the fourth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 75th episode overall. It aired October 10, 2012. The episode was written by Danny Zuker and directed by Gail Mancuso.

Snip (TV series)

Snip is a 1976 comedy starring David Brenner about a hairdresser living in Cape Cod, Massachusetts who has his ex-wife, daughter and former aunt living with him in his apartment. He and his ex-wife are both in the same hairdressing business under their boss and friend who's an openly gay man (played by Walter Wanderman). It was a take-off of the movie Shampoo and was created by James Komack, the creator of Chico and the Man and Welcome Back Kotter.

Pre-broadcast reports about the show noted that it would include an openly gay character as a regular on the show, which was unusual for the time. The series was to premiere September 30, 1976 on NBC, but was cancelled at the last minute and never made it to air in the U.S. The cancellation was so abrupt even TV Guide was caught off guard, and listed the show in its "Fall Preview" issue for that year. Seven episodes were filmed. but two were never edited. The five which were completed aired in Australia. Variety later called this "the oddest case of a shelved show" and "one of the most infamous last-minute yanks" and David Brenner has opined that the show was cancelled because the network feared reaction to the gay character.

Usage examples of "snip".

Tycho was an argumentative soul who, once, in a duel, had the end of his nose snipped off, and thereafter always had to appear in public with a neat silver tip glinting in the light.

The Lion-King glowered at Mahtra through gemstone eyes while the august emerita snipped a corner off a fresh sheet of parchment and covered it with bold, red lines of ink.

I heard Maum Patty scold you yesterday for letting Jip bite it and snip out a piece.

Abigail Fletcher, alias Madam Silver, stood on the sidewalk, about to snip the lifeline Moll Gallagher had found so fascinating.

First Teasle touched the scissors to the side of his head, snipping, and Rambo tried, but could not stop himself from flinching.

But Teasle snipped the scissors to his head again and Rambo flinched again, and hair caught in the swivel of the scissors, yanking sharply at his scalp.

Yes, she was plainly old, yet the way she moved as she beckoned us in across the huge and empty hall, still snipping those secateurs, you half-expected her to fly.

It was amazing how easily and swiftly the shining shears snipped through the crusty rag around the wound.

Teal had watched Artemus Healey, the Neutral, writhe naked under his blanket of insects and had watched Elisha Talbot, the Simoniac, squirm and kick his flaming feet, his damned money now a cushion under his head, and had watched Phineas Jennison quiver and shake as his body hung shredded and snipped.

As I said, the cuts are deep, the veins snipped cleanly, made by something very sharp.

You think Caitlyn Bandeaux slid under the Triumph and snipped the brake lines?

As she thought of Caitlyn, Atropos snipped at the pictures of Cricket and Sugar.

With her pair of long-bladed surgical scissors, she snipped the red and black braid cleanly.

There was no swelling round the wound, and Bella chewed her cud happily as I snipped away.

Sometimes you found the real thing further along in the colon, and for a long time I snipped my way along the coils of bowel with my scissors without finding anything definite.