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snipper

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

From Seattle Times Dec. 24, 2019

He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other "snipper" books followed when that one, years after, had been filled.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

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