Definition of scissor
: scissors
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Staff members had to cut the scarves off with scissors, the records show.
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The girl would get off the phone with her birth mother and chop her hair with scissors, Harrison says.
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Feliciano told officers the suspect also tried to stab him with scissors.
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Joseph McLachlan, to trim the grass with scissors before arranging a bright vase of lilies.
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Also in my head: cutting the frog open with scissors.
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Violation of protection order, Argonne Road: A woman reported March 22 another woman walked toward her vehicle with scissors and stated the father of her child is a liar.
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She was awakened overnight and raped by a man armed with scissors.
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Montalto says that elementary school children ages 4 to 10 need at least 20 minutes of reading time per day, as well as some time carved out to practice their motor skills, such as handwriting and cutting with scissors.
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First Known Use of scissor
15th century
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Like its predecessors—the Countach, Diablo, and Murciélago—the Aventador SV is an impossibly wide, ridiculously low-slung blade of a car, with doors that scissor skyward and a huge V-12 behind the seats.
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Arctic Ivanoff placed second in the boys scissor broad jump and finished fourth in both the two-foot high kick and the one-hand reach.
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Without any option other than letting the forward through or cutting him down, the 28-year-old opted for the latter; scissoring his opponent as the last man and bringing him to ground after only nine seconds.
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The Bruins hope to scissor their six-game losing streak in the series with Oregon.
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Berrios rarely found himself in trouble scissoring through the daunting lineups of Cleveland, Colorado and Baltimore in his three wins.
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First Known Use of scissor
circa 1625
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