1
A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
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excerpt cutting bit
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A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

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To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
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From snip + -et. Compare snippock.

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Snippet

//ˈsnɪpɪt//

Definitions

1
A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
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excerpt cutting bit
2
A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

1
To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
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Word Origin

From snip + -et. Compare snippock.

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To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]