Crossword clues for snips
snips
- Hand shears
- Wields scissors
- Metal-cutting shears
- Crops, as a snapshot
- Takes short cuts?
- Sounds of hair trimming
- Sounds made by scissors
- Shortens with scissors
- Sheet-metal shears
- Scissors cuts
- Salon cuts
- Salon chorus
- Performs a bris
- Minor cuts
- Makes short cuts
- Makes little cuts
- Little cuts
- Insolent ones
- Insignificant ones
- Impertinent persons
- Haircut sounds
- Hair removal sounds
- Cutting tool for sheet metal
- Cutting comments?
- Cuts, as stems
- Cuts, as hair
- Cuts, as bangs
- Cuts in a salon
- Clips by bits
- Barbershop cuts
- Barber's cuts
- ___ off (trims the ends from)
- Cuts with scissors
- Barbershop sounds
- Brats
- Disrespectful ones
- Short cuts
- Scissors sounds
- Sounds in a barbershop
- Impertinent ones
- Saucy ones
- Sounds that may be heard before bangs?
- Small pieces
- Impertinent sorts
- Hand shears for cutting sheet metal
- Sassers
- Uses shears on
- Sassy ones
- Cuts lightly
- Removes dead roses
- Cuts the hedges
- Small shears used by sheet-metal workers
- Metalworker's tool turns up
- Tiny bits
- Uses scissors
- Quick cuts with scissors
- Salon sounds
- Makes the cut?
- Metal-cutting tool
- Cuts corners?
- Quick scissor cuts
- Takes a little off the ends, e.g
- Takes a little off the ends
- Prunes a bit
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snips
"small, stout-handled shears for metal-working," 1846, from snip (v.).
Wiktionary
snips
n. 1 (plural of snip English) 2 shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs vb. (en-third-person singular of: snip)
WordNet
snips
n. (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal [syn: tinsnips]
Wikipedia
Snips
Snips, also known as shears, are hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs. There are two broad categories: tinner's snips, which are similar to common scissors, and compound-action snips, which use a compound leverage handle system to increase the mechanical advantage.
Usage examples of "snips".
Siegfried hesitated, tried a few more practice snips, then turned to the ironmonger.