Dictionary

snippage en · NOUN

Etymology

From snip + -age.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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, countable, uncountable) Removal of irrelevant quoted material from a message being quoted in a reply.
   • vast snippage of past daughter difficulties with resultant good ending. 2001 October 11, Vapid Shell Me, “this is what happened when my daughter had difficulties and I continued to love her”, in soc.singles (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026:
   • 2001 November, 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."
   • Timmy does his selective snippages and takes off on a tangent, which is typical Timmy. 2008 March 15, High Plains Thumper, “[News] The US Navy Dumps Proprietary Software”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Forms

Synonyms

snipping · snip · snippectomy