CLIPPED

clipped

(adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds; “a clipped upper-class accent”

clipped

(adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping; “a handsome man with a clipped moustache”; “clipped hedges”; “close-clipped lawns”; “a clipped poodle”

CLIP

clip, curtail, cut short

(verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; “My speech was cut short”; “Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries”

snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back

(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; “dress the plants in the garden”

clip

(verb) attach with a clip; “clip the papers together”

nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off

(verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; “nip off the flowers”

trot, jog, clip

(verb) run at a moderately swift pace

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

clipped

simple past tense and past participle of clip

Adjective

clipped (not comparable)

Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.

(of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.

(informal) Circumcised.

Synonyms

• (circumcised): see also circumcised.

Source: Wiktionary

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CLIP

Clip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (; p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] Etym: [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klypa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]

1. To embrace, hence; to encompass. O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. Shak.

2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. Sentenced to have his ears clipped. Macaulay.

3. To curtail; to cut short. All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

Clip, v. i.

Definition: To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it. Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.

Clip, n.

1. An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.

2. A cutting; a shearing.

3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

6. (Far.)

Definition: A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.

7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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