'Snip' definitions:
Definition of 'snip'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Snip'
From: GCIDE
- Snip \Snip\, n.
- 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange [1913 Webster]
- 4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Snip'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'snip'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amputate,
- ax,
- bakehead,
- bantam,
- banty,
- bisect,
- bit,
- black gang,
- boilerman,
- breeze,
- bungs,
- butcher,
- butt,
- button,
- cabin boy,
- carve,
- chip,
- chips,
- chit,
- chop,
- chunk,
- cinch,
- cleave,
- clip,
- clipping,
- collop,
- commissary steward,
- complement,
- crop,
- crumb,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cutting,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- dichotomize,
- diminutive,
- dissever,
- dock,
- dollop,
- dot,
- drop,
- droplet,
- end,
- excise,
- featherweight,
- fingerling,
- fireman,
- fissure,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gash,
- gnat,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- hack,
- halve,
- hand,
- hew,
- hospital steward,
- hunk,
- hussy,
- incise,
- incision,
- iota,
- jade,
- jigsaw,
- jot,
- lance,
- landing signalman,
- lightweight,
- lop,
- lump,
- mail orderly,
- malapert,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- mini,
- minikin,
- minim,
- minnow,
- minny,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- morceau,
- morsel,
- mote,
- mouse,
- navigator,
- nick,
- nip,
- nubbin,
- oiler,
- pare,
- paring,
- particle,
- patch,
- peewee,
- picnic,
- pie,
- piece,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pipe,
- point,
- pony,
- prune,
- purser,
- pushover,
- radio operator,
- rasher,
- remnant,
- rend,
- rive,
- roustabout,
- runt,
- saucebox,
- saw,
- scissor,
- scissors,
- scoop,
- scrap,
- sever,
- shard,
- shaving,
- shears,
- shiver,
- shred,
- shrimp,
- slash,
- slice,
- slip,
- slit,
- sliver,
- slut,
- small fry,
- smithereen,
- snack,
- snap,
- snatch,
- snick,
- snippet,
- snips,
- sparks,
- speck,
- splinter,
- split,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stitch,
- stoker,
- stump,
- sunder,
- tag,
- tatter,
- tear,
- tit,
- tittle,
- torpedoman,
- vanishing point,
- wart,
- watch,
- whittle,
- wisp,
- yeoman