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Snip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] 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
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]
[also: snipping, snipped]