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In some senses, snip is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
To break off; to snatch away.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […]some of it for my own share.
To circumcise.
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.
To perform a vasectomy.
noun
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
A piece cut out by snipping.
It was true about the fanmaking; the table and floor were littered with snips of paper.
Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.