snick
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Off Anderson's bowling, Labuschagne offered a regulation snick from a back-foot drive only for Buttler to spill the ball at a comfortable height moving to his right.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
It crunches around in the glass, and you can hear its eyes snick in their sockets as it anxiously looks all around your small apartment.
From Slate ● May 30, 2020
It closes with a satisfying snick and has a springiness to it when you open it up.
From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2019
Moeen Ali strikes, two balls after the drinks break, getting one to drift into Elgar and then spin enough to snick through to Bairstow!
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016
Gitl made a small snick of annoyance between her teeth and wiped up the spill with the edge of her apron.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
They're fluffy and cakey without being too fluffy or too cakey like some snicks.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
I love the way a makeup compact snicks shut or how a luxury car door closes with a kind of airlock seal or — yes — how a classic Razr flips open.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2020
The sixth ball snicks off his edge through third slip, and Cook whips his head around in panic to see if he has been spared.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2010
He made a couple of rapid snicks, pulled the silk open, glanced in, then looked up at his old master.
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Mild youths with spectacles leaped out of their ground like tigers, and snicked fours through the slips.
From The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
“Well, thee hasn’t got thee head snicked off yet, Joe?”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The shroff was clicking on his abacus, and left off snicking the beads up and down to remark casually that the compradore had gone.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte
He let his whip-thong droop and played At snicking off the grass-blades with it, John Hankerton, from Compton Lythitt, Was there with Pity Hankerton, And Mike, their good-for-little son, Back, smiling, from his seventh job.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
Then, Herr Hauptmann," said the Englishman, "since you are a soldier, you and I know what fighting is, and that snipping and snicking at noses is no fighting.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
