scissor

Meanings

Noun

• 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.

Verb

• 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.

Origin

• Altered from scissors; ultimately from Latin caedere; current spelling influenced by Latin scindere.