[ noun ] a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) <noun.artifact>
Snippet \Snip"pet\, n. A small part or piece.
To be cut into snippets and shreds. --F. Harrison.
After offering the snippet, Mr. Reagan asserted: "The truth is, we came home from this summit with everything we had hoped to accomplish."
Poland last month began pairing a snippet of CNN coverage each night with a similar excerpt from Soviet TV.
A promotional tape of what the Comedy Channel might look like included, for example, a snippet of Steve Martin in "The Man With Two Brains," when a police officer pulls him over and gives him the world's most rigorous drunk-driving test.
Fein said the media has not fairly portrayed the administration's progress toward its civil rights goals. "On the victories, they end up with a little three-graf snippet on page 25," he complained.
Once the selection is made, a 10- to 15-second snippet of each song on the album is played.
This is but one snippet of advice offered to U.S. businessmen and other travelers by consultants specializing in flight security.
It fell flat, achieving only one small and bilious snippet in the whole of the national press.