Dictionary Entry
scissors
scissors is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1plural noun
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
- 2noun
a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
- 3noun
a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
- 4noun
an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
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