snip vs cutting off

snip and cutting off both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
snip	Yes	No	Yes	No
cutting off	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cutting off is a hypernym of snip; that is, cutting off is a word with a broader meaning than snip:

Other hypernyms of snip include cut, cutting.

snip (noun)	cutting off (noun)
the act of clipping or snipping	the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)	the act of cutting something off

snip (verb)	cutting off (verb)
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
sever or remove by pinching or snipping