snick

Off Anderson's bowling, Labuschagne offered a regulation snick from a back-foot drive only for Buttler to spill the ball at a comfortable height moving to his right.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021

It crunches around in the glass, and you can hear its eyes snick in their sockets as it anxiously looks all around your small apartment.

From Slate ● May 30, 2020

Inside 10 overs Bancroft and Usman Khawaja were there as well, though in Khawaja’s case the third umpire had to be summoned to verify the snick.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019

It closes with a satisfying snick and has a springiness to it when you open it up.

From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2019

Gitl made a small snick of annoyance between her teeth and wiped up the spill with the edge of her apron.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

They're fluffy and cakey without being too fluffy or too cakey like some snicks.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022

I love the way a makeup compact snicks shut or how a luxury car door closes with a kind of airlock seal or — yes — how a classic Razr flips open.

From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2020

But the thermal cameras that detect edges are not being used in this World Cup, so small snicks are still almost impossible to detect.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011

All the town is asleep when this boy slips out of his front-gate and snicks the latch behind him softly.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016

The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother would not agree that she might have been sleepwalking; but she was ready to put the door opening down to the fault of the latch, which certainly snicked very lightly.

From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson

Norman spoke a word over the motor's muffled thunder, and Hackett snicked on the electrical radiators.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Harry Bates

The feeding mechanism snicked and the fresh shell clicked as it slid into the breech.

From The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak

He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Calculations were made how to cut the stuff to advantage, and in due course the heavy scissors were heard snick, snick, snicking all day long.

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

The sixth, however, which he also produced from the same wondrous store contained in his breeches pocket, he contented himself with what he called "snicking."

From Amusement Only by Richard Marsh

Then, Herr Hauptmann," said the Englishman, "since you are a soldier, you and I know what fighting is, and that snipping and snicking at noses is no fighting.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett