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: a white or light mark
especially
: a white spot between the nostrils of a horse
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: a presumptuous or impertinent person
especially
: an impertinent or saucy girl
snipped; snipping
: to cut or cut off with or as if with shears or scissors
snipped the stray threads
specifically
: to clip suddenly or by bits
: to make a short quick cut with or as if with shears or scissors
snipper
noun
Examples of snip in a Sentence
Noun
cleared out the snips of paper that had been clogging the machine
that antique urn that we bought at London's Portobello Road Market was a real snip
Verb
He snipped some fresh herbs from plants on the windowsill.
snipping pictures out of magazines
She snipped at the hanging strings.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
After a few selective snips with scissors and some folding (think paper doll construction), a multilayered square can be assembled without tools.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2013
Tim Casey, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Pruning was inspired by a real-life neural network, the human brain, which gains efficiency by snipping connections between synapses as a person ages.
—Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
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Noun
And then, snip by snip, she was cut out of the frame of Renaissance art history.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
After a few selective snips with scissors and some folding (think paper doll construction), a multilayered square can be assembled without tools.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2013
Verb
Three minutes later, Rock climbed the ladder and snipped the last strand of the net, just as Pitino had wanted.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Pruning was inspired by a real-life neural network, the human brain, which gains efficiency by snipping connections between synapses as a person ages.
—Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for snip
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“Snip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snip. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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