snippage

plural snippages

1. countableuncountableSomething that has been snipped away.

   "You will have to snip both front and back and then pick out your "snippage" with your fingernails."

   1964, Hope Hanley, NEELEPOINT - Page 143

2. InternetcountableuncountableRemoval of irrelevant quoted material from a message being quoted in a reply.

   vast snippage of past daughter difficulties with resultant good ending.

   2001 October 11, Vapid Shell Me, “this is what happened when my daughter had difficulties and I continued to love her”, in soc.singles (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026

   2 more examples

   2001 November, User: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Subject: [chat] Sweet baby jebus, the snippage! "Please remember that every time you send an email to the SLUG lists, it is multiplied out to everyone on the list, *including* people who subscribe on digest mode. Lack of snippage is particularly annoying for them."

   Timmy does his selective snippages and takes off on a tangent, which is typical Timmy.

   2008 March 15, High Plains Thumper, “[News] The US Navy Dumps Proprietary Software”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

   Synonyms: snip, snippectomy, snipping