snip

Word family

snip1 /snɪp/ verb (snipped, snipping) [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

CUTto cut something by making quick cuts with scissors 〔用剪刀〕迅速地剪

I snipped the string and untied the parcel.

我剪断绳子，解开包裹。

snip something off (=remove it by snipping) 剪掉某物

Snip the ends of the beans off before you cook them.

先把菜豆两头剪掉然后再煮。

► see thesaurus at cut

Examples from the Corpus

snip• Andrews snipped and sewed the masterpiece into one-piece garments.• He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching.• She snipped crisp green stalks with a pair of scissors.• Carefully snip into the paper along its length, to form a row of thin strands joined at one end.• If you snip off one leg of a cockroach, it will shift gaits with the other five without losing a stride.• They are all currently at a loose end, and loose ends are so easily snipped off.• She has even been snipped out of a photograph taken after her wedding.• She snipped the thread which held the two pieces of cloth together.• Lois snipped the wires before loosening the screws.

snip2 noun [countableC]

1. CUTa quick small cut with scissors 〔剪刀的〕一剪

2 be a snip British EnglishBrE informalCHEAP to be surprisingly cheap 极其廉价

At £20 for a dozen, they’re a snip.

20 英镑一打，真便宜。

Examples from the Corpus

be a snip• Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time.• The new computer package is a snip at only £599 plus tax.• After a cut, the plug is snipped out by a special enzyme, the molecules link up and the clot forms.• The rest was snipped off, using fine scissors.• At £80, this is a snip.• For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.

Examples from the Corpus

snip• For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.• Below: S. brichardi - a snip at Where to start?• But she carried in her purse a snip from a London newspaper.• But you and I both know all it would take to wreck your career is one errant snip of the scissors.• It merely made a quick snip.• In this case, the husband had searched the garden on his hands and knees, clipping the longer grass with snips!• But he talked about the garden and the way Colette attacked the roses with snips.

From Longman Business Dictionary

snipsnip /snɪp/ noun

be a snip British EnglishBrE informal to be surprisingly cheap

At £20 for twelve, they’re a snip!

Origin snip2

(1500-1600) Dutch and Low German

snip1 verbsnip2 noun

Chinese

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