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Clip

noun

1.

A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun. Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine.

2.

An instance or single occasion for some event. Synonym: time. "He called four times" , "He could do ten at a clip"

3.

Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together.

4.

An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress.

5.

The act of clipping or snipping. Synonyms: clipping, snip.

6.

A sharp slanting blow.

verb

(past & past part. clipped; pres. part. clipping)

1.

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping. Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off.

2.

Run at a moderately swift pace. Synonyms: jog, trot.

3.

Attach with a clip.

4.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim.

5.

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent. Synonyms: curtail, cut short. "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

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"Clip" Quotes from Famous Books

... always for the bit of readin' But Denny here, he's great for growin' things, There's not a primrose that he'd not be heedin' Herself is right 'tis graver things he's needin' The thrush is tamer when you clip his wings. ...

— The Dreamers - And Other Poems • Theodosia Garrison

... passed them, going at a fast clip, and somebody called out that he saw a shadow over toward the far side of the river. And another voice answered. "You're always seeing things. A log, maybe. Didn't I tell you that I found some money in the street? And aren't we going to have the best meal that money can buy? Do you want ...

— Hunters Out of Space • Joseph Everidge Kelleam

... we had been led out a couple of miles, I saw a blue streak after my bait, and I was ready before the swordfish got to it. He struck viciously and I dared not let him have much line. When I hooked him he started out to sea at a clip that smoked the line off my reel. Captain Dan got the boat turned before the swordfish began to leap. Then it was almost a straightaway race. This fellow was a greyhound leaper. He did not churn the water, nor dash to and fro on the surface, but kept steadily leaping ahead. He cleared the water ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

... the people he then directed his discourse to a consideration of Cato, and said: "You, Cato, if you are displeased at women's ornaments and wish to do something magnificent and befitting a philosopher, clip their hair close all around and put on them short frocks and tunics with one shoulder; yes, by Jove, you go ahead and give them armor and mount them on horses and, if you like, take them to Spain; and ...

— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio

... Haarfager, "of the fair hair," the woman is proud and beautiful Gyda, whose former scorn for him, in the days when he was nothing but the petty chief of a few barren mountains, provoked that strange wild vow of his, "That he would never clip or comb his locks till he could woo her as sole king ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

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