SCISSORS

[plural] [noun] - a device used for cutting materials such as paper, cloth and hair, consisting of two sharp blades which are joined in the middle in a way that allows them to move against each othernail/manicure scissorskitchen scissorsdressmaking scissorsa pair of scissorsCould you pass me those scissors, please.These scissors are rather blunt/(US also) dull - I'll have to get them sharpened.(disapproving) If a book or television programme is a scissors and paste job, it is not original, but made up from parts of other books or programmes.