scissored; scissoring
ˈsi-zə-riŋ 
ˈsiz-riŋ
: to cut, cut up, or cut off with scissors or shears
scissored the paper into strips
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City News Service, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
Similar Lambo in ‘Miami Vice’ The first car MCQ marketed to investors was a white 1986 Lamborghini Countach with fire engine red interior and scissor doors that open up instead of out, allowing for a more dramatic entrance.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Stafford twisted free of an unblocked defender rushing up the middle, ducked under a second would-be tackler, then scissored his legs like a high-stepping Houdini an instant before finding the star receiver with a seven-yard scoring pass.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Baker tested positive for PCP, methamphetamine and fentanyl, Birney said, and investigators believed a screwdriver, fork and scissors were used in the attack.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
Similar Lambo in ‘Miami Vice’ The first car MCQ marketed to investors was a white 1986 Lamborghini Countach with fire engine red interior and scissor doors that open up instead of out, allowing for a more dramatic entrance.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
—Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Stafford twisted free of an unblocked defender rushing up the middle, ducked under a second would-be tackler, then scissored his legs like a high-stepping Houdini an instant before finding the star receiver with a seven-yard scoring pass.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Scissor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scissor. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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