snip

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snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

To gently 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 gently cut off with short sharp actions

snip (plural snips)

The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
A low price, a bargain

That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
A small amount of something; a pinch.
(definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- 2010 — Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, 2010 ISBN 1408313723.
  
  'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'

The act of snipping

A low price, a bargain

A small amount of something

A euphemism for a vasectomy