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 snaps on the back of a caseless iPhone with a satisfying snick.

From The Verge ● Jul. 23, 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

Then she stepped back into the hallway, and in a moment they heard the snick of a box being slit open.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring.

From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson

He snicked his first ball for a single, bringing the novelist to the fore again, and Samuel Wilberforce Gosling vowed a vow that he would dismiss that distinguished novelist.

From A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The Officer-Candidates, on a signal from Major Dampfer, snicked their ceremonial sabers from their scabbards and presented them, blade-tip to blade-tip, as an archway.

From The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang

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

"I guess," she said, taking a box of cartridges from the top shelf and snicking open the sealing with a finger nail, "I guess I'd better load this rifle."

From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White

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

He let his whip-thong droop and played At snicking off the grass-blades with it, John Hankerton, from Compton Lythitt, Was there with Pity Hankerton, And Mike, their good-for-little son, Back, smiling, from his seventh job.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield