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• 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
• v  cut with or as if with scissors

• Exclusive: Airport screeners plan to shift tactics, focusing less on scissors and more on passenger behavior.
• On the wall, someone has painted a big pair of scissors as if to say: Cut along the dotted Line.
• Dan Burton is so afraid of catching AIDS that he brings his own scissors to the House barbershop and refuses to eat soup at public restaurants.

• pair of scissors
• scissors hold
• scissor hold
• scissor grip
• scissors grip
• scissor

News & Articles

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• Transient allegedly threatens to stab Glendale florist with scissors
  A 55-year-old Glendale transient faces possible assault charges after he was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening to stab a local florist with a pair of scissors, police said.
  June 12, 2013 - The Glendale News-Press
• Hotel Clerk Fends Off Would-Be Robber with Scissors, Bibb Deputies Looking for Suspect
  MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County deputies are looking for a man who tried to rob a west Macon hotel with a knife Monday night. At about 10 p.m, a man approached the counter at the Best Western Inn on Chambers Road and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk reached for a pair of scissors on the counter, and when he looked up, the suspect was gone. The sheriff's office says the suspect ...
  June 12, 2013 - 41 NBC Macon
• Scissors trump knife in Bibb County attempted robbery
  A clerk with a pair of scissors held off a would-be robber with a knife at the Best Western on Chambers Road in Bibb County.
  June 11, 2013 - Macon Telegraph

Quotes

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• Vince McMahon in FOXNews
  Hopefully, I have really dull scissors so I can yank the rest of it out that I can't cut,McMahon said. "But I may be surprised how much Mother Nature has already beaten me to the punch. I won't know that until I start cutting."
• Alexi Lalas in Contactmusic.com
  Stunned LA Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas says, "My suggestion is that the judge get a pair of scissors, cut the thing in half and give half to each."
• Yossi Sarid in International Herald Tribune
  The military censor isn't an independent body - it's controlled by the government, which uses it to relay messages. I don't like a government that holds a censor's scissors,Sarid said.