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A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.

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  1. n. pl. A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
  2. n. an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
  3. n. a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
  4. n. a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves their legs as the blades of scissors move
  5. n:100 n. an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades n. a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze n. a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move