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✂️ To cut slightly 🏏 A light hit 🏏 To hit lightly ✂️ A small cut
to snick

to snick

1 9.8
To make a small sharp cut that may make a quiet sound
  • verb
  • /snɪk/
translation icon : hacer clic
  • Ammo clips are snicked into handgun butts, and a long clip is snicked into an UZI.
  • snicked shut
  • door snicked

Examples

  • The lock snicked, then the lights went out.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • He even snicked them twice to see if they still worked, but with a bit of braggadocio in the gesture that felt to Fred like the twirl of a pistol.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Her steel claws snick into place.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Upstairs, a door snicked shut.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Rat's scissors snick.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Grant and Ellie put everything they have into it, and finally the door snicks shut, locking the raptor outside.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • SIX-INCH STEEL TALONS snick into place.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Ammo clips are snicked into handgun butts, and a long clip is snicked into an UZI.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As the knife cut through the paper, it made a snick sound that caught my attention.

  • With a quick motion, she snicked the tape to make a clean edge.

Synonyms

to nick
vsto snick
33 3.5

To make a small cut on the skin or a surface, often by accident

is a small sharp cut often done on purpose and making a crisp sound

How Deep

cut
1.0
to slash
53 3.0
to snick
1 9.8
to scratch
161 1.1
graze
4 3.4

Surface Forms

snick infinitive
snicked past
snicked past participle
snicking present participle
snicks third person singular

Etymology

Snick is like snip and comes from the idea of a quick cutting sound, as when scissors 'snick' through paper. So to snick is to make a small, sharp cut or to produce that little cutting sound.