Definitions for snick

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Spelling: [snik]
IPA: /snɪk/

Snick is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in snick (cikns).

Definitions for snick

noun

  1. a small cut; nick.
  2. a click.
  3. Cricket. a glancing blow given to the ball. the ball so hit.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut, snip, or nick.
  2. to strike sharply:
  3. to snap or click (a gun, trigger, etc.).

verb (used without object)

  1. to click.

Origin of snick

1550-60; origin uncertain; compare Scots sneck to cut (off), Old Norse snikka to whittle

Examples for snick

One straight incision, one snick of a tendon, and it was all over without a stain on the white towel which lay beneath.

A good drive at golf is quite as fine a thing to look at as a snick to the boundary on the cricket field.

The snick of the key came next and they came into the hallway.

I heard the snick of the whips somewhere in the dust, and the fillies came back at a canter, very shocked and indignant.

These quotations will clearly show that "sneck" or "snick" applies to a door; and that to sneck a door is to shut it.

Is this something you dreamed, snick,” says I, “or is it a sample of your megaphone talk?

"snick up," according to Mr. Collier, is said to be "a term of contempt," of which the precise meaning seems to have been lost.

Both boys are batting steadily; no more boundary hits; a snick here, a snack there—and then—merciful Heavens!

The stranger bent over him; then the deft “snick” of a sharp knife.

Now look at the latest returns on the career of my old grammar school chum, snick Butters.

Word Value for snick
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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