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noun • (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | ||||||||
| 24% | 9 | Gardener's pruning shears | ||||||
noun • small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface | ||||||||
| 24% | 8 | Fast sailing ships; swift sleds, horses etc; a hair trimmer; or, garden shears for shrubbery or topiary | ||||||
noun • Anything that clips. • (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails. • Something that moves swiftly; especially: • The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae. • A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value. • A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges. • Confidence trickster; conman. • A tool for clipping something. | ||||||||
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SNIPS which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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SNIPS
Updated: October 11, 2023
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| New York Times11 Jul 2012 | Down 27 | |
| New York Times02 Oct 1983 | Across 67 | |
| New York Times19 Jun 1977 | Down 108 | |
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