Definition of SCISSOR

scissor

Plural: scissors

Verb

Verb Forms: scissored, scissoring, scissors

  • To cut or divide with a two-bladed cutting implement.
  • cut with or as if with scissors
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
  • To excise or expunge something from a text.
  • To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Noun

  • Attributive form of scissors.
  • One blade on a pair of scissors.
  • Scissors.
  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

Examples

  • He had to SCISSOR through the middle of the board to open up new scoring lanes.
  • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  • The runner scissored over the hurdles.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).

Scrabble Score: 9

scissor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scissor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scissor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

scissor: valid Words With Friends Word