scissoring

1. (uncommon, often figurative) An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.Examples: "It's got plenty to make them blanch if and when it is shown them, although the New York State censor board okayed it with insignificant scissorings."; "The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]"figurativelyoftenuncommon

2. (uncommon, possibly dated) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.Examples: "The whole work looks very much like somebody's scrapbook, a decidedly good one, however, scissorings from the current literature of the last ten years, with a moderate infusion of extracts from earlier sources, […]"; "A THEOLOGICAL paper: devoted to acrimonious debates about abstruse doctrines. A WEEKLY SCRAP paper: made up of scissorings from other newspapers."datedpossiblyuncommon

3. (sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.Examples: "Divya […] The evenings aren’t our most sexy time together, as a couple. Frankie Yeah, the scissoring tends to happen in the afternoon. We often combine it with a nap. We love napping."Synonyms: tribadism, trib