scissors

/ˈsɪzəz//ˈsɪzɚz/

noun

  1. 1

    One blade on a pair of scissors.

  2. 2

    Scissors.

  3. 3

    (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. 1

    To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

  2. 2

    To excise or expunge something from a text.

    The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  3. 3

    To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.

  4. 4

    To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

    The runner scissored over the hurdles.
  5. 5

    (sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

  6. 6

    To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

noun

  1. 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. 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. 3

    A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.

  4. 4

    An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.

  5. 5

    A scissors hold.

  6. 6

    (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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