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Definition scissors

Etymology

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *c?s?ria, plural of Late Latin c?s?rium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -c?sus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caed? (“to cut”).

Noun

scissors (plural scissors)

1. (countable, usually construed as plural) 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. (countable, rugby) 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.
3. (countable, skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
4. (countable, gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
5. (countable, wrestling) A scissors hold.
6. (rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

scissors

1. (rare) plural of scissor

Verb

scissors

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor

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