scissors
noun
- 1
One blade on a pair of scissors.
- 2
Scissors.
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(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
verb
- 1
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
- 2
To excise or expunge something from a text.
“The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.”
- 3
To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
- 4
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
“The runner scissored over the hurdles.”
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(sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
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To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
noun
- 1
(usually construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
“Scissors are used to cut the flowers.”
- 2
An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
“They executed a perfect scissors.”
- 3
A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
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An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
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A scissors hold.
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(rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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