Meaning of Scissoring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
   figuratively, often, uncommon
2. A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
   dated, possibly, uncommon
3. A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

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Examples

“It's got plenty to make⟳ them blanch if and when it is shown them, although the New York State censor board⟳ okayed it with insignificant scissorings.”

“The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]”

“The whole work⟳ looks very much like⟳ somebody's scrapbook, a decidedly good one, however, scissorings from the current literature of the last⟳ ten years, with a moderate infusion of extracts from earlier sources, […]”

“A THEOLOGICAL paper: devoted to acrimonious debates about abstruse doctrines. A WEEKLY SCRAP paper: made up of scissorings from other newspapers.”

“Divya […] The evenings aren’t our most sexy time together, as a couple. Frankie Yeah, the scissoring tends to happen⟳ in the afternoon. We often combine⟳ it with a nap. We love⟳ napping.”

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