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UK
/snˈɪp/
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[ US /ˈsnɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈsnɪp/ ]
NOUN
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
VERB
-
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
nip off the flowers -
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
dress the plants in the garden
How To Use snip In A Sentence
- The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
- I thought the snippety interaction between RDJ and Paltrow was one of the best things about this one, and the saving grace of the first. Iron man 2
- It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
- The venison is good served with roasted parsnips, chestnuts or braised celery. Times, Sunday Times
- And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
- On behalf of tiny snipers, we are delighted to invite you to join an iterative process of hematoid symposia to be held at the hinges of daily life. Dear Carl
- Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
- It did not help that both players took to Twitter to snipe from the sidelines. Times, Sunday Times