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    snip
    [snip]
    verb
    snip (verb) · snips (third person present) · snipped (past tense) · snipped (past participle) · snipping (present participle)
    1. cut (something) with scissors or shears, typically with small quick strokes:
      "she inspected the embroidery, snipping at loose threads" · "she snipped layers into the hair around her face"
    noun
    snip (noun) · snips (plural noun)
    1. an act of cutting something with small quick strokes:
      "he took a snip at a dandelion on the grass"
      • a small piece of something that has been cut off:
        "the collage consists of snips of wallpaper"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        informal
        (the snip)
        a vasectomy:
        "about 6,000 men get the snip every year, and numbers are increasing"
    2. a surprisingly cheap item; a bargain:
      "the wine is a snip at £2.65"
      • dated
        a thing that is easily achieved.
    3. (snips)
      hand shears, especially for cutting metal:
      "use tin snips"
    4. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      a small or insignificant person:
      "imagine that little snip telling me I was wrong!"
    Origin
    mid 16th century (in the sense ‘a shred’): from Low German snip ‘small piece’, of imitative origin.
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  1. The term "snip" can be defined as1234:
    • To cut with a small, quick stroke, often using scissors or shears.
    • To remove or cut off something by cutting in this manner.
    • A small piece that is cut from something.
    • The act or sound of snipping something.
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    verb (used with object), snipped, snip·ping. to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like. to remove or cut off (something) by or as by cutting in this manner: to snip a rose.
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    snip (snĭp) v. snipped, snip·ping, snips v.tr. To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes.
    snip /snɪp/ vb (snips, snipping, snipped) to cut or clip with a small quick stroke or a succession of small quick strokes, esp with scissors or shears
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    SNIP meaning: 1 : a small piece that is cut from something a small piece that is snipped; 2 : an act or the sound of snipping something usually singular
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