scissor

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or clip out with scissors.
2. to eliminate or eradicate from a text; expunge: testimony scissored from the record.

verb (used without object)

3. to move one’s body or legs like the blades of scissors: a gymnast scissoring over the bar.

noun

4. scissors.

noun

1. (modifier) of or relating to scissorsa scissor blade

verb

2. to cut (an object) with scissors

v.1610s, “to cut with scissors;” 1961 with reference to leg motions (in the wrestling sense it is attested from 1968); see scissors. Related: Scissored; scissoring.