Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut off by clipping; cut short: having the ends or edges cut off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective trimmed with clippers.
- adjective (music) staccato; -- contrasted with
legato . - adjective effectively concise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
clip . - adjective Having an end cut off;
trimmed or cut back. - adjective of speech With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
- adjective informal
Circumcised .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of speech) having quick short sounds
- adjective cut or trimmed by clipping
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Examples
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Gita Patel—at least, that was the name on the tag clipped on to her lab coat—set her instruments down and slid around on her wheeled stool to face me as I struggled into a sitting position.
Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner 2001
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"I speak in short-clipped sentences and keep my head very still," Eisenberg said.
VIDEO: Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg Finally Meet on Saturday Night Live 2011
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But wait … here on my desk is this wonderful photograph with accompanying story I clipped from the New York Times just recently — January 16, 2009.
john tagliabue | nieuwerkerk aan den ijssel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Written in clipped, precise, instantly recognizable prose, The Fall of Troy is a novel about oppositesof truth and deception, fact and fiction, history and romance, love and loyalty.
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The above sentence, clipped from a multi-page letter received May 4, 2001 and signed by Stormhawk states: I HAVE NEVER
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Modi spoke to me in clipped, to-the-point phrases, with a didactic tone, about the cosmopolitan trading history of Gujarat going back 5,000 years, and how Parsis and others had come to its shores and been assimilated into the Hindu culture.
India’s New Face 2009
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Modi spoke to me in clipped, to-the-point phrases, with a didactic tone, about the cosmopolitan trading history of Gujarat going back 5,000 years, and how Parsis and others had come to its shores and been assimilated into the Hindu culture.
India’s New Face 2009
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Somewhere in all my wanderings I've lost the original of this I clipped from a Sunday comics section.
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Somewhere in all my wanderings I've lost the original of this I clipped from a Sunday comics section.
December 2008 2008
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I have a tiny picture clipped from a magazine of a tarsier staring with its trademark surprised look at the camera with a big bug sticking out of its mouth.
My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie Heather McDougal 2008
reesetee commented on the word clipped
In coinmaking, the term used to describe an irregularly cut planchet. A clip can be straight or curved, depending upon where it was cut from the strip of metal.
April 21, 2008