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snipping

/snip/US // snɪp //UK // (snɪp) //

剪断,剪切,剪辑,嗅探

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v.有主动词 verb
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    snipped, snip·ping.

    • : to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
    • : to remove or cut off by or as by cutting in this manner: to snip a rose.
v.无主动词 verb
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    snipped, snip·ping.

    • : to cut with small, quick strokes.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of snipping, as with scissors.
    • : a small cut made by snipping.
    • : a small piece snipped off.
    • : a small piece, bit, or amount of anything: a snip of food.
    • : Informal. a small or insignificant person.
    • : Informal. a presumptuous or impertinent person.
    • : snips, small, strong hand shears used by sheet metal workers.
    • : British Informal. a bargain.

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Examples

  • We had a little goose that was laying golden eggs, and they told us to snip its head off.

  • If you ever put your hands on me again, I'm gonna snip your little nuts off with my toenail clippers!

  • This is a debate over how much personal autonomy we give to children—and the implications go beyond a single snip.

  • A disgusting snip of a person had moved between him and those bitter but glamorous memories of Maria Algarez.

  • Accustomed to bite and eat its way through hard leaves, why did not the insect snip off and destroy its rope?

  • As it is, though, I believe I could snip a curl off the baby's head an' hardly scare the darlin'.

  • But the naughty baby only laughed quite merrily over the howl, and the two children begged of Snip-snap to do it again.

  • Still, if you promise to breathe not a word of this to any woman I may marry hereafter, here's a dead snip for you.