verb (used with object)
- to cut or clip out with scissors.
- to eliminate or eradicate from a text; expunge: testimony scissored from the record.
verb (used without object)
- to move one’s body or legs like the blades of scissors: a gymnast scissoring over the bar.
noun
- scissors.
noun
- (modifier) of or relating to scissorsa scissor blade
verb
- 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.