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verb (clips, clipping, clipped)

• 1cut short or trim (hair, wool, nails, or vegetation) with shears or scissors:clipping the hedge
• trim or remove the hair or wool of (an animal):how to clip your horse
• (clip something off) cut off a thing or part of a thing with shears or scissors:he clipped off a piece of wire figurativeshe clipped nearly two seconds off the world record
• cut (a section) from a newspaper or magazine:a photograph clipped from a magazine
• pare the edge of (a coin), especially illicitly:they clipped the edges of gold coins and melted the clippings down
• speak (words) in a quick, precise, staccato manner:“Yes?” The word was clipped short (as adjective clipped)cold, clipped tones
• Computing process (an image) so as to remove the parts outside a certain area.
• Electronics truncate the amplitude of (a signal) above or below predetermined levels.

• 2strike briskly or with a glancing blow:the steamroller clipped some parked cars branches clipped his face

• 3 informal, chiefly North American swindle or rob (someone):in all the years he ran the place, he was clipped only three times

• 4 [no object] informal, chiefly US move quickly in a specified direction:we clip down the track

noun

• 1an act of clipping or trimming something:I gave him a full clip
• a short sequence taken from a movie or broadcast:clips from earlier shows
• (also wool clip) the quantity of wool clipped from a sheep or flock.

• 2 informal a quick or glancing blow:you need a clip on the jaw

• 3 [in singular] informal a specified speed or rate of movement, especially when rapid:we crossed the dance floor at a fast clip