snip /ˈsnɪp/
 (vt.)(vi.)剪,剪斷剪,剪刀的一剪,少許
 Snip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.]  To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
    Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject.   --Fuller.
    The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.   --De Foe.
 Snip n.
 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
 2. A small shred; a bit cut off.
 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.]
 4. A tailor. [Slang]
 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
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 snip
      n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
           snipped off) [syn: snippet, snipping]
      2: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping]
      v 1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the
           flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip off]
      2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
         plants in the garden" [syn: clip, crop, trim, lop,
          dress, prune, cut back]
      [also: snipping, snipped]