snips

/ (snɪps) /


pl n
  1. a small pair of shears used for cutting sheet metal: Also called: tin snips

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How to use snips in a sentence

  • After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the window and opens it.

  • To make one complete man out of all this vast collection of snips and snippets of humanity.

    Prose Fancies | Richard Le Gallienne
  • The reason that there is more snips are the same shining very colored rid of no round color.

    Tender Buttons | Gertrude Stein
  • They do not hear the men beyond their parapets lying on their stomachs and busily cutting the wires with their snips.

    Training for the Trenches | Leslie Vickers
  • So th' punchers got to totin' wire-snips, an' when they runs up agin a fence they cuts down half a mile or so.

    Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford