clipping

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  1. noun Something cut off or out, especially an item clipped from a newspaper or magazine.
  2. noun See clipped form.

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  • The clipping was a photograph, or a part of one, with a head-and-shoulders shot cut from a larger photograph, the fragment of a headline still attached over the head, like a halo. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • This second phase of his life had produced only one full-length clipping, a feature story about a rap song inspired by his instant camp commercials. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • At first Charles, in consideration probably of his relationship to the manager, was allowed to do his tying, clipping, and pasting in the counting-house. —  Life of Charles Dickens
  • Malone read the fourth clipping, then pushed it aside and waited. —  EQMM,January2006
  • This clipping is so vague that it does not identify what fight it describes, but only the night before the Concepcion engagement seems to fit. —  Three Roads to Alamo
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  1. from Middle English clipping, clupping; verbal noun of clip, v.
  2. Ppr. of clip, v.
  3. from Middle English clippinge; verbal noun of clip, v.
 

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