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snipper

/ ˈsnɪpə /

noun

  1. informal,  a hairdresser

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The snipper is Lorena Bobbitt, who in 1993 cut off husband John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis and tossed it out her car window.

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He has a particularly pithy way of summing up the two cases that came to define his career: the sniper and the snipper.

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It began almost 50 years ago, when the talented snipper stated his vision of creating "The Harrods of hairdressing".

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“They call me the ‘sniper and the snipper’ prosecutor,” Ebert told one person.

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Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Russ Snipper, who is competing in the tenpin bowling contest for the Great Britain team, said that being able to take part in the Maccabi games in Germany was a “phenomenal opportunity”.

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