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tijera — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • scissor verb To cut with, or as if with, scissors.
  • scissoring noun An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
  • scissors noun A tool with two pivoting blades used for cutting paper, fabric, hair and other thin materials.

Senses

tijera is used for these senses in English:

  • scissor (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
  • scissoring (sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  • scissors (countable, usually, construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.

scissor — full definition

  1. verb To cut with, or as if with, scissors.
  2. verb To move in a scissor-like motion, especially the legs.

scissoring — full definition

  1. noun An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
  2. noun A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
  3. noun A sex act in which two people intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

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