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    snip
    [snip]
    verb
    snips (third person present)
    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
    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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    Similar and Opposite Words
    verb
    1. cut (something) with scissors or shears, typically with small quick strokes:
      cut
      clip
      cut into
      slit
      nick
      gash
      notch
      incise
      snick
      cut off
      prune
      hack off
      saw off
      dock
      crop
      sever
      separate
      detach
      remove
      take off
      snip off
      trim (off)
      chop off
      lop (off)
    noun
    1. an act of cutting something with small quick strokes:
      cut
      clip
      trim
      slit
      nick
      gash
      notch
      incision
      snick
    2. a surprisingly cheap item; a bargain:
      bargain
      giveaway
      steal
      good buy
      cheap buy
      (good) value for money
      surprisingly cheap
      Opposite:
      rip-off
    3. a small or insignificant person:
      nobody
      nonentity
      nonperson
      gnat
      insect
      cipher
      pygmy
      upstart
      squirt
      stripling
      johnny
      whippersnapper
      bozo
      picayune
      pisher
      puppy
      pup
      dandiprat
      insignificant person
      nerk
      squit
      nyaff
      Opposite:
      somebody
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