scissor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Attributive form of scissors.

   • I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.
2. 2

   One blade on a pair of scissors.

3. 3

   Scissors.

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   1. 4

      Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as…

      Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

   2. 5

      To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

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      • Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.
   3. 6

      To excise or expunge something from a text.

      • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
      • The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.
      • At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]
   4. 7

      To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.

   5. 8

      To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

      • The runner scissored over the hurdles.
      • 1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
      • His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.
   6. 9

      To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their…

      To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

   7. 10

      To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

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