scissored

For much of Hollywood’s history, Black people were presented on-screen, if at all, in demeaning, stereotyped roles or in isolated song-and-dance segments that could be scissored by theater owners in the South.

Let the beef and pork render out until they shrink into these tender morsels encrusted with char, ready perhaps to be scissored right on the grill and dunked in sauce.

The puck kicked slowly back to Kochetkov and he swiped it into his leg pads and scissored them shut before Sprong could pounce.

Or do you have higher expectations: hand stripping for a terrier, a scissored haircut or a sculpted trim?

That same year, she was cast as Meryl Streep’s daft mother in the film “Heartburn,” also directed by Nichols, but her part — poised to mark her breakout — was scissored from the final version.