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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
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
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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