scissors vs throatless shear

scissors

noun
  • A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed. 

  • A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • A scissors hold. 

  • An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver. 

  • An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side. 

  • A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. 

  • An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors. 

  • A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot. 

throatless shear

noun
  • A cutting tool used to make complex straight and curved cuts in sheet metal. 

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