scissors

Meaning

Noun

1. A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
2. A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
3. An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
4. An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
5. A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
6. An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
7. A scissors hold.
8. A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Verb

Rare form of scissor (“To cut using, or as if using, scissors.”).

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor

Intj

Cry of anguish or frustration.

Concepts

scissors

shears

pair of scissors

clippers

scissor hold

scissors hold

chisel

scissor grip

scissors grip

clipper

clip

cut

graver

punch

tongs

nippers

cutting instrument

pair of shears

snuffers

knife

scissor jump

scissors kick

slice

pair of pincers

barber’s clippers

paper

hay

m.j.

Columbian

Ghana

Indian hemp

Juanita

Kentucky blue

Lucas

Mary

Mary Ann

Mary Jane

Meg

Rose Marie

airplane

bud

ashes

baby

bale

bar

bash

block

blonde

blue sage

boo

boom

broccoli

burrito

charge

cheeba

churus

coli

crazy weed

dagga

dew

ding

ditch

djamba

endo

fir

fine stuff

flower

fu

funk

gage

gange

gangster

gash

gauge

grass

grata

green goddess

greeter

grefa

greta

grifa

griff

has

hemp

herb

herba

homegrown

hooch

kali

kaya

kilter

kind

lima

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

locoweed

m.o.

machinery

macon

mota

mother

moto

pat

pin

pod

poke

pot

red cross

red dirt

reefer

root

rope

salt and pepper

seeds

sen

sess

shake

skunk

stack

stems

stink weed

supergrass

thirteen

thumb

torch

wheat

yeh

yerba

magic smoke

doobie

moocah

cochornis

Chicago green

Colorado cocktail

pocket rocket

muggles

love weed

viper's weed

chira

llesca

marley

dona Juana

gauge butt

aunt Mary

African bush

giggle smoke

Columbus black

drag weed

white-haired lady

esra

yellow submarine

jive stick

Pakistani black

lubage

mor a grifa

mooca

bullyon

don Jem

giggle weed

snop

duby

cosa

messorole

dawamesk

Texas tea

frajo

jay smoke

kiff

grass brownies

mooster

mutah

righteous bush

flower tops

gunja

Wacky terbacky

laughing grass

potten bush

killer weed

gunga

pretendo

durog

coliflor tostao

yesco

kgb

mutha

pretendica

sezz

fraho

sasfras

kumba

griffa

Mary weaver

dubbe

laughing weed

bo-bo

hanhich

zambi

pakalolo

sweet Lucy

rasta weed

mohasky

m.u.

Mary Jonas

wacky weed

bammy

queen Ann's lace

modams

canamo

draf weed

splim

Panama gold

Meggie

cheeo

dry high

Acapulco red

baby bhang

gunney

Panama cut

p.r.

smoke Canada

diambista

butter flower

African black

yesca

dinkie dow

manhattan silver

joy smoke

lakbay diva

vipe

canappa

Mary and Johnny

cavite all star

Indian boy

mootie

crying weed

cannabis tea

takkouri

rainy day woman

o.j.

burnie

muggie

Mexican red

griffo

moota

mootos

blowing smoke

siddi

lamb's bread

good giggles

bobo bush

black bart

black gunion

funny staff

railroad weed

bambalacha

ghanja

tex-mex

gungun

taima

doradilla

Mary Warner

yen pop

Texas pot

dona Juanita

chillums

Canadian black

duros

sugar weed

griefo

santa Marta

gold star

weed tea

sinse

light stuff

jolly green

carmabis

pinking shears

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪzəz/

Etymology

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).