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snip
noun- a bargain UK, 1926
- The only part that’s no longer a snip is her [Reese Witherspoon’s] salary: $15 million for Legally Blonde 2. — The Times, 2 August 2003
- something that is easily achieved or done; a certainty UK, 1890
- a thing that is more fortunate, excellent or pleasing than might normally be expected UK, 1952
In the phrase “snip of a thing”. - Llaregyb this snip of a morning is wildfruit and warm, the streets, fields, sands and waters springing in the young sun. — Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, 1953
- a ticket collector UK
- — Harvey Sheppard, A Dictionary of Railway Slang, 1970
▶ the snip
any invasive medical procedure that sterilises a patient; a vasectomy, an orchidectomy, etc. UK- Bloke goes for the snip, bloke gets wife to take photos of the pro-cedure[.] — Internet Magazine, July 2001
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