Definitions for snips

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Spelling: [snip]

IPA: /snɪp/

Snips is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in snips (inpss).

Definitions for snips

noun

1. the act of snipping, as with scissors.
2. a small cut made by snipping.
3. a small piece snipped off.
4. a small piece, bit, or amount of anything:
5. Informal. a small or insignificant person.
6. Informal. a presumptuous or impertinent person.
7. snips, small, strong hand shears used by sheet metal workers.
8. British Informal. a bargain.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
2. to remove or cut off (something) by or as by cutting in this manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to cut with small, quick strokes.

Origin of snips

1550-60; origin uncertain; compare Dutch, Low German snippen to snip, catch, clip

Examples for snips

"Confound them snips of Aids," said he angrily, as he wiped the mud off.

Then these snips of boys on the police detail won't write the truth?

So when he asked me to go with him I cut every tie that bound me to my old life as one snips the withered leaves from a plant.

Her reflections were oddly intermingled with snips and pricks other than those of her conscience.

The question was needless, for the table was strewn with snips of calico.

The Fate who snips the threads, had invariably clipped such colouring from the St. Angé design, and tossed it aside as useless.

On the following morning I received a visit from snips, my tailor.

Having secured the cups for five cents each, they cut the handles with a pair of tinners' "snips."

This victory Agrippa obtained at an easy rate, not more than three of his snips being sunk or destroyed.

The wind, which blew a gale, uprooted trees and flicked them out of the way as if they were snips of paper.