snip

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

   I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.

2. verb To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
3. verb To break off; to snatch away.
4. verb To circumcise.
5. verb To perform a vasectomy.
6. verb To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
7. verb To speak or say in a snippish manner.
8. noun The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.

Similar words

clipping lop clip dress trim cut back crop nip snippet prune

Often followed by

off the of and a it out at away

Word family

snipped snipper snippers snipping snips