SNIB

Definition: SNIB

SNIB

Noun

1. A reprimand; a snub.

Transitive verb

1. To check; to sneap; to sneb.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SNIB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references)

Crosswords: SNIB

Etymologies containing "SNIB": Sneb. (references)

"SNIB" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "SNIB" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SNIB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vriderlukke (clip, dog), vrider (button, clip, dog). (various references)

Dutch		knevelsluiting (clip, dog). (various references)

French		tourniquet, fermeture � tourniquet. (various references)

German		Knebelverschluss (clip, dog), Handhebel (clip, dog). (various references)

Italian		dispositivo di manovra doppia a mano di porte stagne (clip, dog). (various references)

Pig Latin		ibsnay

Vietnamese		chốt cửa sổ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "SNIB": snibbed, snibbing, snibs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: bins, nibs.
	Words within the letters "b-i-n-s"
	-1 letter: bin, bis, ins, nib, sib, sin.
	-2 letters: bi, in, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "b-i-n-s"
	+1 letter: basin, binds, bines, bints, bison, brins, nabis, sabin, snibs.
	+2 letters: ablins, bairns, banish, basing, basins, basion, begins, beings, bennis, bindis, binges, bingos, binits, binocs, bionts, bisons, blains, blinds, blinis, blinks, bonsai, brains, brines, brings, brinks, bruins, burins, busing, buskin, cabins, gibson, nimbus, nubias, robins, sabine, sabins, zinebs.
	+3 letters: abasing, ablings, absinth, abstain, abusing, aiblins, albinos, bagnios, bakings, bandies, bandits, banians, banksia, banshie, banties, banzais, basenji, bashing, basinal, basined, basinet, basions, basking, basting, bastion, beanies, beduins, behinds, benison, bennies, benzins, berlins, besting, biasing, bicrons, biffins, biggins, bigness, bikinis, billons, binders, bindles, bingers, biogens, bionics, biotins, bisnaga, bizones, bluings, bobbins, bodings, bodkins, boffins, bonacis, boniest, bonitas, bonitos, bonsais, boonies, borings, bossing, bousing, bovines, bowfins, bowings, bowsing, boxings, briners, brinies, brinish, brisant, bromins, brucins, bumkins, bundist, bunions, bunnies, burnies, burnish, bushing, busings, busking, buskins, bussing, busting, busying, bylines, byrnies, disband, dobbins, dubbins, dustbin, ebonies, ebonise, fibrins, gabions, gibbons, gibsons, globins, goblins, henbits, inbreds, inburst, incubus, indabas, intombs, lesbian, milnebs, minibus, misbind, nebbish, newbies, nibbles, niobous, nubbins, obtains, omnibus, rabbins, rebinds, ribands, ribbons, robbins, sabbing, sabeing, sabines, sabring, sibling, snibbed, sobbing, sorbing, stibine, subbing, suberin, subjoin, subline, subring, subunit, sunbird, swingby, symbion, tubings, unbinds, upbinds.
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