snip off

1. 1.

   sever or remove by pinching or snipping

   “nip off the flowers”

   Synonymsnipnip offclipsnip

   Broadercut

Questions about snip off

What does snip off mean?

snip off means "sever or remove by pinching or snipping".

What is another word for snip off?

Close synonyms include nip, nip off, clip, snip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is snip off a common word?

snip off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.