Snip

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SNIPPED (snĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SNIPPING.] [D. snippen, Ger. schnippen, schnippsen.] 1. To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to cut off; to nip. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. 2. To take little by little; to pilfer. The captain seldom ordered any thing out of the ship’s stores, but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.