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snip-snapping

snip-snapping is the present participle and gerund of snip-snap.

Meaning of snip-snap

Verb

snip-snap (third-person singular simple present snip-snaps, present participle snip-snapping, simple past and past participle snip-snapped)

  1. To shut, close, bite, etc., with a brisk snap.
    • He had picked a small section of scrub behind his shanty which the lagoon below cut into paintable patterns, and with easel snip-snapped up and palette set, was going through the essential preliminary of peering at it[.]1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 40

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Questions about snip-snapping

What is snip-snapping the present participle and gerund of?
Snip-snapping is the present participle and gerund of snip-snap.

Words near snip-snapping in the dictionary

  1. snip
  2. snip-snap
  3. snip-snap-snorem
  4. snip-snap-snorum
  5. snip-snapped
  6. snip-snapping
  7. snip-snaps
  8. snipe
  9. snipe eel
  10. snipe eels
  11. snipe flies

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