snick
Americanverb (used with object)
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snicks,
present (3rd person singular)
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snicked,
past participle, past
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snicking
present participle
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to cut, snip, or nick.
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to strike sharply.
He snicked the ball with his cue.
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to snap or click (a gun, trigger, etc.).
verb (used without object)
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snicks,
present (3rd person singular)
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snicked,
past participle, past
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snicking
present participle
noun
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a small cut; nick.
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a click.
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Cricket.
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a glancing blow given to the ball.
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the ball so hit.
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noun
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a small cut; notch
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a knot in thread, etc
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cricket
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a glancing blow off the edge of the bat
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the ball so hit
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verb
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to cut a small corner or notch in (material, etc)
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cricket to hit (the ball) with a snick
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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snicksimple
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snickssimple
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have snickedperfect
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has snickedperfect
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am snickingprogressive
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are snickingprogressive
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is snickingprogressive
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have been snickingperfect progressive
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has been snickingperfect progressive
Past
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snickedsimple
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had snickedperfect
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was snickingprogressive
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were snickingprogressive
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had been snickingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of snick
1550–60; origin uncertain; compare Scots sneck to cut (off ), Old Norse snikka to whittle
Example Sentences
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Off Anderson's bowling, Labuschagne offered a regulation snick from a back-foot drive only for Buttler to spill the ball at a comfortable height moving to his right.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
It snaps on the back of a caseless iPhone with a satisfying snick.
From The Verge ● Jul. 23, 2021
It crunches around in the glass, and you can hear its eyes snick in their sockets as it anxiously looks all around your small apartment.
From Slate ● May 30, 2020
Inside 10 overs Bancroft and Usman Khawaja were there as well, though in Khawaja’s case the third umpire had to be summoned to verify the snick.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019
The snick of the tongue of the catch finding its place in the door frame releases me.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
They're fluffy and cakey without being too fluffy or too cakey like some snicks.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
I love the way a makeup compact snicks shut or how a luxury car door closes with a kind of airlock seal or — yes — how a classic Razr flips open.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2020
But the thermal cameras that detect edges are not being used in this World Cup, so small snicks are still almost impossible to detect.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011
He made a couple of rapid snicks, pulled the silk open, glanced in, then looked up at his old master.
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, however, he snicked a ball into cover-point's hands, and retired, amid great applause, having made forty-three.
From Mates at Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce
Mild youths with spectacles leaped out of their ground like tigers, and snicked fours through the slips.
From The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
On its way it snicked a neat little chip out of a chair-back.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Quick," snicking off the light of the electric torch and rising to his feet, "into your dressing-room, baron.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew
Calculations were made how to cut the stuff to advantage, and in due course the heavy scissors were heard snick, snick, snicking all day long.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
The sun has gained great power, and on still bright days sharp snicking sounds are to be heard from the firs.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
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