Definitions
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- noun countable A kind of
snips resemblingscissors .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal
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Examples
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Or you could wander into a mobile phone shop and stand at the MobileMuster mobile phone recycling boxes with a pair of tinsnips and dismantle the computers on-site and drop them into the box piece by piece … for free :
Computer recycling and disposal in Canberra — RuthEllison.com 2008
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Some good stuff there: the first Hugo (which appears to have been constructed with tinsnips and lead solder), Terry Pratchett's badge techotchkes, really happy goth bondage play, Singularity-focused authors, barbarians in mirrorshades, amazingly detailed models of Unseen University and environs, an ironic sneak photo of a t-shirt, Dorks are Hot t-shirt, und zo weiter.
Boing Boing: August 29, 2004 - September 4, 2004 Archives 2004
notanotherjazzpoet commented on the word tinsnips
Useful not only in meter, but in wrangling hardware cloth too.
February 19, 2007