snick
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Haseeb Hameed's thin snick, Jack Leach bowled shouldering arms, Jonny Bairstow pinned lbw, Joe Root's edged drive, Mark Wood taken in the follow-through and Ollie Robinson snaffled at third slip.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
It snaps on the back of a caseless iPhone with a satisfying snick.
From The Verge ● Jul. 23, 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
Inside 10 overs Bancroft and Usman Khawaja were there as well, though in Khawaja’s case the third umpire had to be summoned to verify the snick.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019
One was the splash of something heavy falling into the water; the other was a noise like the snick of a lock when a door quietly closes fast.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
All the town is asleep when this boy slips out of his front-gate and snicks the latch behind him softly.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
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
Norman spoke a word over the motor's muffled thunder, and Hackett snicked on the electrical radiators.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Harry Bates
On its way it snicked a neat little chip out of a chair-back.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
He once had been a famous bat, He had that stroke, "the Manor-pat," Which snicked the ball for three, past cover.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
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
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
A batsman certainly gets a considerable amount of innocent fun by snicking good fast balls just off his wicket to the ropes, and standing stolidly in front against slow leg-breaks.
From Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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
