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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
           parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
           age was subject.                         --Fuller.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
           stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
                                                    --De Foe.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  snipped
       See snip

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  snipped
     a.
     (lb en informal) circumcised.
     vb.
     (infl of en snip  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  snipped
     a.
     (lb en informal) circumcised.
     vb.
     (infl of en snip  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  snipped
     a.
     (lb en informal) circumcised.
     vb.
     (infl of en snip  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  snipped
     a.
     (lb en informal) circumcised.
     vb.
     (infl of en snip  ed-form)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Snipped /snˈɪpt/
  مقصوص

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  snipped /snˈɪpt/
  geschnippelt, geschnippelt
   see: snip, snipping, snipped
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  snipped /snˈɪpt/
  geschnippelt, geschnipselt
   see: snip, snipping, snipped
  

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