Snicker-snack: possibly related to the large knife, the snickersnee.

A rooster headed fiend cackled his glee and rushed forward, snickersnee on high.

"You only did about ten day's work yesterday in ten minutes, swinging this frightful snickersnee of yours.

Historians call it the Snicket Snickersnee!

Snickersnee, snickersnee.

The scratchy snickersnee swoosh produced by the swift separation of metal teeth was a sound more ominous to both men than any hiss or shriek or howl that might emanate from the unknown forest.

Now, two decades later, the flowers are blooming in the spring again, the three little maids are back from school, and Koko is sharpening his snickersnee for the 20th-anniversary staging of the Gilbert and Sullivan favorite.

You are about to say as much when, snickersnee, Diamond pushes the button and brings up another view of the gate, this time with a group of a dozen or more Westerners posing formally in front of it.

When the waiters of Café Salmonella (on the firestarting side of the schism) tried to appropriate the salmon for their café, the Snickets engaged in a knife fight against them, later dubbed the Snicket Snickersnee.

We both know only one of us will land after this knife fight.

And there is the small matter of that knife fight.

"Knife fight," he said when she looked at him with a question in her eyes.

I also learned there are no rules in a knife fight.

He had never heard of anyone being dropped from school for anything less than a knife fight.

Her body remembered the last knife fight she had been in.

The bloody woman wanted to see him in a knife fight!

One man was killed and another wounded in a knife fight last night, the police said.

It was like a knife fight in a dark closet.

Last summer there was a knife fight over a parking spot.

Then, at thirteen, he had lost his right eye in a knife fight.

If the American pilot wanted a knife fight, that's what he'd get.

Above his left eye was a scar from a knife fight in a pub.

At his school in the Bronx the kids have knife fights.

A knife fight is taking place between the two gang leaders in a warehouse.

"The challenge is to make that transition, in the next three weeks, from a garden party to a knife fight."

But if you're cut up in a knife fight, shock and blood loss will kill you quick.

She'd never been in a knife fight in her life.

Cut four men, they say, in a knife fight on a riverboat.

I got into a knife fight during a gang war."

Vinspel had been killed in a knife fight, ten days back.

And who else got into a knife fight and played doctor on themselves?

What Aubry eventually got was death in a knife fight.

Memories flooded back, of another knife fight twenty years before.

Thomas Rector would die two years later in a knife fight.