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  1. transitive verb To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears: clip coupons; clipped three seconds off the record.
  2. transitive verb To make shorter by cutting; trim: clip a hedge.
  3. transitive verb To cut off the edge of: clip a coin.
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  • They were fastened with a paper clip, and slipped under the clip was a piece of paper on which I read: Thank you, Nero Wolf. —  Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 01 - Fer-de-Lance
  • The spoken language in the clip is Norwegian; the subtitles are in English and Danish. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The datasets for the clip are available for anyone to explore —  fxguide.com
  • Sure, this clip is the kind of slo-mo behind-the-scenes of a tour-type thing we've seen a million times before, but it still works, —  MetalSucks
  • As well, you can see the clip is already getting beat up a bit. —  Planet Apache
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa.
  2. Middle English, hook, from clippen, to clasp, embrace, from Old English clyppan.

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  1. from Middle English clippen, clyppen, cluppen, from Anglo-Saxon clyppan, embrace. Connection with clip is uncertain. Cf. climp, clamp.
  2. from clip, v. Senses 3–6 may possibly belong to clip, n.
  3. from Middle English clippen, from Icelandic klippa = Swedish klippa = Danish klippe, clip, shear, cut. Connection with clip is uncertain.
  4. from clip, v.
  5. Usually associated with clip, cut (cf. cut, v. i., in a similar sense), but prob. in part of other origin; cf. Low German (later German dial.) kleppen, run fast, as a horse, a secondary form of klappen = English clap: see clap, which also connotes quick motion. See clipper.
 

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