verb, noun
verb (-pp-) ~ (at / through) sth to cut sth with scissors using short quick strokes:
[VN] Snip a tiny hole in the paper. * [V] She snipped at the loose threads hanging down.
PHRASALVERBS
snip sth<->off to remove sth by cutting it with scissors in short quick strokes:
Snip off the end of the tube. * She snipped several inches off his hair.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C] an act of cutting sth with scissors; the sound that this makes:
Make a series of small snips along the edge of the fabric. * Snip, snip, went the scissors.
2 (snips) [pl.] a tool like large scissors, used for cutting metal
3 (a snip) [sing.] (BrE, informal) a thing that is cheap and good value:
It's a snip at only ｣25.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for snip is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is snip a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, snip is tagged as noun.
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