Dictionary Definition
snip
Noun
Verb
1 sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip
off the flowers" [syn: nip,
nip off,
clip, snip off]
2 cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
"dress the plants in the garden" [syn: clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] [also:
snipping, snipped]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -ɪp
Verb
- To gently cut off with short sharp actions (usually with
scissors).
- I don't want you to take much hair off, just snip my mullet off.
Translations
Noun
the snip
- A euphemism for a vasectomy
Translations
The act of snipping
- Finnish: leikkaaminen
A low price, a bargain
A euphemism for a vasectomy
Extensive Definition
Snip may refer to:
- The action of cutting something
- Snip (software)
- Common snipe
- Single nucleotide polymorphism
- Scotland Northern Ireland Pipeline, a pipeline carrying natural gas to Ireland from mainland Britain
- SNIP, the abbreviation for national building codes of the Russian Federation
snip in French: SNIP
snip in Dutch: Snip
snip in Russian: СНиП
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amputate, ax, bakehead, bantam, banty, bisect, bit, black gang, boilerman, breeze, bungs, butcher, butt, button, cabin boy, carve, chip, chips, chit, chop, chunk, cinch, cleave, clip, clipping, collop, commissary steward,
complement, crop, crumb, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off,
cutting, deckhand, deckie, dichotomize, diminutive, dissever, dock, dollop, dot, drop, droplet, end, excise, featherweight, fingerling, fireman, fissure, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gash, gnat, gob, gobbet, grain, gun loader, gunner, hack, halve, hand, hew, hospital steward, hunk, hussy, incise, incision, iota, jade, jigsaw, jot, lance, landing signalman, lightweight, lop, lump, mail orderly, malapert, microbe, microorganism, midge, mini, minikin, minim, minnow, minny, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mote, mouse, navigator, nick, nip, nubbin, oiler, pare, paring, particle, patch, peewee, picnic, pie, piece, pinhead, pinpoint, pipe, point, pony, prune, purser, pushover, radio operator,
rasher, remnant, rend, rive, roustabout, runt, saucebox, saw, scissor, scissors, scoop, scrap, sever, shard, shaving, shears, shiver, shred, shrimp, slash, slice, slip, slit, sliver, slut, small fry, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snippet, snips, sparks, speck, splinter, split, steward, stewardess, stitch, stoker, stump, sunder, tag, tatter, tear, tit, tittle, torpedoman, vanishing point,
wart, watch, whittle, wisp, yeoman