Definitions for clip

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Spelling: [klip]

IPA: /klɪp/

Clip is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in clip (cilp).

Definitions for clip

noun

1. the act of clipping.
2. anything clipped off, especially the wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep.
3. the amount of wool shorn in one season.
4. clips, (used with a plural verb) an instrument for clipping; shears.
5. film clip.
6. Informal. clipping (def 2).
7. Informal. a quick, sharp blow:
8. rate; pace:
9. a device that grips and holds tightly.
10. a metal or plastic clasp for holding together papers, letters, etc.
11. cartridge clip.
12. an article of jewelry or other decoration clipped onto clothing, shoes, hats, etc.
13. a flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe.
14. Also called lug. Shipbuilding. a short length of angle iron connecting and maintaining the angle between two members or surfaces.
15. Archaic. an embrace.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut, or cut off or out, as with shears:
2. to trim by cutting:
3. to cut or trim the hair or fleece of; shear:
4. to pare the edge of (a coin). Compare sweat (def 22).
5. to cut short; curtail:
6. to pronounce rapidly, with precise articulation and with omission of certain sounds, as of unstressed vowels:
7. to shorten (a word or phrase) by dropping one or more syllables.
8. Informal. to hit with a quick, sharp blow:
9. Slang. to take or get money from by dishonest means; swindle; rook.

verb (used without object)

1. to clip or cut something.
2. to cut articles or pictures from a newspaper, magazine, etc.
3. to move swiftly:
4. Archaic. to fly rapidly.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to grip tightly; fasten with or as if with a clip.
2. to encircle; encompass.
3. Football. to block by illegally throwing the body across a player's legs from behind.
4. Archaic. to embrace or hug.

Origin of clip

1150-1200; Middle English clippen Old Norse klippa to clip, cut

Examples for clip

He felt the clip board being pushed into his hand, then glanced down.

All the mathematics 56 she needs is enough to count her sheep and figure her clip.

If I should be caught and brought back, they'd clip my wings and brand me for life.

But like the phoenix, he has risen in the form of a 2:11, horribly produced YouTube clip.

Check out a clip from this exclusive interview with SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace at the 2014 Savannah Film Festival.

It's been comin' his way ever since he was big enough to clip a coupon.

In this clip, a teenage Minaj gets heated and throws a phone in a play rehearsal during her tenure at LaGuardia High School.

The clip received heaps of Internet criticism after it went viral, and has since been pulled down from state channels.

In the clip, Julie claims she lost her doctor and her premiums became unaffordable as a result of Obamacare.

When I hooked him he started out to sea at a clip that smoked the line off my reel.