snippage

noun — 2 senses

snippage

noun

Etymology From snip + -age.

1

something that has been snipped away

  • "You will have to snip both front and back and then pick out your "snippage" with your fingernails."1964, Hope Hanley, NEELEPOINT - Page 143:
2

Internet removal of the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message

  • 2001, User: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Subject: [chat] Sweet baby jebus, the snippage! "Please remember that every time you send an email to the SLUG lists, it is multiplied out to everyone on the list, *including* people who subscribe on digest mode. Lack of snippage is particularly annoying for them."

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