SNIPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snips mean? 

• SNIPS (noun)
  The noun SNIPS has 1 sense:

1. (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal

  Familiarity information: SNIPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNIPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

snips; tinsnips

Hypernyms ("snips" is a kind of...):

shears (large scissors with strong blades)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Short as the two snips are, you can distinctly see the same slight curve in each.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: Ah, how frightened I have been!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The paper is cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)