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means A small, brief extract or fragment, especially of text, speech, or music, pulled out of its larger surroundings.

from Snippet comes from 'snip,' the sound-word for a quick, small cut — itself borrowed from Dutch or German 'snippen,' meaning to snip or clip — with the diminutive suffix '-et' tacked on to mean 'a little snip.' So a snippet is literally a tiny clipping, the linguistic equivalent of a scrap left on the cutting-room floor, which is exactly why it so often turns up stripped of everything that once gave it meaning.