Snipped

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
           parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
           age was subject.                         --Fuller.
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           The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
           stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
                                                    --De Foe.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snipped
       See {snip}