1. past tense and past participle of snip; cut with scissors or shears in short, quick strokes

Examples

• She snipped the ribbon with her craft scissors.
• The gardener snipped the dead flowers from the bush.
• He snipped out the newspaper article to save it.
• The barber snipped away the split ends.
• Mom snipped the tags off my new shirt.
• The seamstress snipped the excess thread from the hem.