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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