snip
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Is snip a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (informal) To circumcise.Examples: "Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped."; "His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England."; "By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves."informal
2. (informal) To perform a vasectomy.informal
3. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.Internet
noun (English)
1. (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.Examples: "That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10."informal
2. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.definiteeuphemistic
3. (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.Examples: "'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'"informal
4. (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.onomatopoeic
5. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.Examples: "Nor was the lady's establishment more fortunate in gaining the regard of the household. The maid was a verjuiced spinster, too old to love herself, and too ill-natured to look on. The footman was a regular snip […]"dated
6. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.Examples: "His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary