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Meaning of scissoring

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

scissoring

verb

Definitions

  1. To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

  2. To excise or expunge something from a text.

    Example: 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.

    Example: The runner scissored over the hurdles.

noun

Definitions

  1. An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.

  2. (possibly obsolete) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.

  3. (sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

    Synonyms:tribtribadism