Definition: snip

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

snip
     n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
          snipped off) [syn: snippet, snipping]
     2: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping]
     v 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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
   To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with
   shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to
   break off; to snatch away.

         Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
         parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
         age was subject.                         --Fuller.

         The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
         stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
                                                  --De Foe.
Snip \Snip\, n.
   1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak.

   2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman.

   3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange

   4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley.

   5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.