0 to cut something with scissors, usually with small, quick cuts: --
1 a quick, short cut with scissors: --
Give it a snip with the scissors.
2 a product that is being sold cheaply, for less than you would expect: --
The sunglasses are now available in major stores, a snip at £12 a pair.
3 to cut something, usually with a few quick actions using scissors (= cutting device with two blades) or a similar device: --
Using their own boltcutters they snipped the chain and hid her in the woods until they could regroup and bring her home.
On the outside of the hull, the wire is snipped and the joints filled and sanded over.
If a thumb break is designed to be non-removable, it may be snipped off with a pair of shears.
To remove the catheter after several weeks the balloon is deflated by snipping the distal end of the catheter.
I believe in the policy of snips.
Shipowners and all engaged in snipping are in a speculative industry.
If the trade routes are snipped you will get a panic in this country, and what would be the use of sending out afterwards?
He was often seen ceremoniously snipping the last raisin in half.