What is snip?

More definitions of "snip":

• (noun): A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
  Synonyms: snippet, snipping

• (verb): Sever or remove by pinching or snipping.
  Synonyms: nip, nip off, clip, snip off

• (verb): Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  Synonyms: clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back

Famous quotes containing the word snip:

“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)

“Up there
godding the whole blue world
and shrieking at a snip of land.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)