Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears: clip coupons; clipped three seconds off the record.
- v. To make shorter by cutting; trim: clip a hedge.
- v. To cut off the edge of: clip a coin.
- v. To cut short; curtail.
- v. To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.
- v. To enunciate with clarity and precision: clip one's words.
- v. Informal To hit with a sharp blow: clipped me under the eye.
- v. Football To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.
- v. Sports To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.
- v. Slang To cheat, swindle, or rob.
- v. To cut something.
- v. Informal To move rapidly.
- n. The act of clipping.
- n. Something clipped off, especially:
- n. The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.
- n. A season's shearing.
- n. A short extract from a film or videotape.
- n. Informal A quick sharp blow: a clip on the ear.
- n. Football An illegal block from the rear.
- n. Informal A pace or rate: go at a fast clip.
- n. A single occasion; a time: could write nine pages at a clip.
- n. A pair of shears or clippers.
- n. Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
- n. A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip; a brooch.
- n. A cartridge clip.
- v. To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.
- v. Archaic To embrace or encompass.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To embrace; infold; hug; clasp; grasp; grip.
- To hold together by pressure, as with a spring, screw, or bandage.
- n. An embrace.
- n. A grasp; clasp; grip, as of a machine.
- n. A device for closing a vent in a machine.
- n. In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe, which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.
- n. A metal clasp or confining piece used to connect the parts of a carriage-gear, or to hold the hook of a whipple-tree.
- n. A clasp or spring-holder for letters, papers, etc.
- To cut off or sever with a sharp instrument, as shears or scissors; trim or make shorter by cutting: as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings.
- To diminish by cutting or paring: as, to clip coin; “clipped silver,”
- To shorten; curtail; cut short; impair by lessening.
- Hence To pronounce (words) in a shortened form, or with abbreviation.
- To cut hair.
- n. The quantity of wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep; a season's shearing.
- n. A blow or stroke with the hand.
- n. plural Shears, especially sheep-shears.
- To move swiftly, as a falcon, a horse, or a yacht: often with an indefinite it.
- A dialectal form of clepe.
- n. In angling, a salmon-gaff.
- n. Same as cartridge-clip.
- n. Rate of rapid motion, as of horses or yachts: as, a three-mile clip; a fifteen-knot clip.
Wiktionary
- v. To grip tightly.
- v. To fasten with a clip.
- v. To hug, embrace.
- v. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- v. To strike with the hand.
- v. An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- v. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
- n. An embrace.
- n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- n. Something which has been clipped; a small portion of a larger whole, especially an excerpt of a larger work.
- n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- n. A speed or pace.
- n. The condition of something, its state.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
- v. To cut off; as with shears or scissors.
- v. To curtail; to cut short.
- v. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite
it . - n. An embrace.
- n. A cutting; a shearing.
- n. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
- n. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
- n. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
- n. 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 andbeak . - n. A blow or stroke with the hand.
- n. A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
- n. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- n. A rapid gait.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- v. run at a moderately swift pace
- n. a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- n. a sharp slanting blow
- n. an instance or single occasion for some event
- v. sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- v. attach with a clip
- n. any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- n. the act of clipping or snipping
- n. an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
Etymologies
- Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa.Middle English, hook, from clippen, to clasp, embrace, from Old English clyppan.
Examples
“It had a ground wire with a clip and I would attach the clip to the rail of my bed.”
TEDBUNDY
“Suspend, Permit clipboard = clip = clipboard loop, 10 send {tab} {enter} {control down} {c} {control up} clipwait, 30 if clipboard \% clip\% break if clipboard \% clip\% spellkeys = clipboard”
“But the McCain clip is another example of how a throw-away line at a campaign pit-stop can live on and on online.”
Cindy McCain as Miss Buffalo Chip? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“The built-in clip is at least useful for wrapping some flagging tape around, to make them more obvious on the ground.”
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Initial Results from the Crew Radio Experiment
“So we're going to hear the title clip, so to speak, the title scene in which the police captain actually makes the proposition.”
“Edit the title clip by double-clicking on it in the Project Tree, then make your changes.”
“Fans of the British incarnation will probably agree that this clip is at once familiar and also almost unutterably alien.”
“I'm not sure if the placement indicated by this clip is the best place for it, but I'm sure Reitman could have found a place for it.”
Up in the Air Deleted Scene: Ryan Bingham Goes To Space | /Film
“I like his voice and the melancholic song, but the clip is a bit boring indeed.”
“I would also expect these videos to come under “fair use” by the fact that the clip is a very small portion of the original work.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clip’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo.
( randomness )right chea, swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong and 298 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 390 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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crime slang
slang terms for crimes
phony paper passin, stroppy, situation, clip, flip, artform, volatile, teleport, squee, futz, fizzog, hotch up and 14 more...
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Autantonyms
Words that are the opposites of themselves; each of the words in the list below has at least two definitions of which one is the complete contrary of the other.
fast, buckle, weather, out, weedy, overlook, cleave, let, clip, quite, sanction, bolt and 19 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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[Open] Contranyms
ingenuous, bill, bound, cleave, clip, dust, fast, handicap, oversight, rent, screen

hernesheir All the wool from a sheared flock of sheep (Australia). Feb 18, 2010
reesetee In coinmaking, slang for a coin struck from a clipped planchet. Apr 21, 2008
oroboros Sever v. attach. Dec 3, 2007