Usually means: Tool for cutting, two blades.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word scissor:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scissor: Merriam-Webster
  2. scissor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scissor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scissor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scissor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scissor, scissor: Wordnik
  7. scissor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scissor: Wiktionary
  9. scissor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scissor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scissor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scissor: Dictionary.com
  13. Scissor (gladiator), Scissor (gladiator type), Scissor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Scissor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. scissor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. scissor: Rhymezone
  17. Scissor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scissor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scissor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scissor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scissor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scissor: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Scissor: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scissored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
noun:  (India) Scissors.
noun:  (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
verb:  (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
verb:  (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
verb:  (intransitive, sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
verb:  (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

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