snip

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snip/snɪp/

▶verb (snips, snipping, snipped) cut with scissors or shears, with small, quick strokes. ▶noun

• 1 an act of snipping.

• 2 a small piece that has been cut off.

• 3 Brit. informal a bargain.

• 4 informal a thing that is easily achieved.

• 5 (snips) hand shears for cutting metal.

• 6 N. Amer. informal a small or insignificant person.

– origin C16: from Low Ger. snip ‘small piece’, of imitative origin.