Snip \Snip\, n. 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak.
2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman.
3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange
4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley.
5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
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.
Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe.
France, where 2.2 million farmers produce much of the community's agriculture exports, has balked at any move to snip export aids, which enable the Europeans to sell high-priced goods on the world markets.
Some censors in Egypt's national television have taken it upon themselves to snip scenes of kissing and drinking out of movies.
If you opt for standard fax paper and receive more than a dozen faxed pages a day, you should get a machine with an automatic paper cutter to separate faxes into cut pages. Otherwise, somebody has to manually snip the pages apart.
This big aggressive act will not deter us from continuing the struggle and resistance to snip out the cancer planted in our blessed land and chop off the hand of the arrogants headed by the great Satan, America.
And yet the replacement programme is likely to cost anywhere between Dollars 100m to Dollars 500m, more than a snip even for a company expected to generate net earnings of Dollars 2.6bn this year.
A typical upper east side dentist, meanwhile, charges Dollars 175 for a small filling, half as much again as the Pounds 60 demanded by his Harley Street counterpart. However, New York spectacle prices are a snip.
Since this spring, several labs have identified natural enzymes that snip damaging shards of the beta amyloid from a larger "precursor" protein normally produced by cells throughout the body.