Definitions for clipped

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Spelling: [klipt]

IPA: /klɪpt/

Clipped is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in clipped (cdeilpp).

Definitions for clipped

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.

adjective

1. characterized by quick, terse, and clear enunciation.

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 clipped

clip¹ + -ed²

Examples for clipped

Only the point of it stuck up; the rest was clipped as clean as a rat-terrier's.

Bergdahl dialed out, leaned into the desk, and spoke to his contacts in code names and a clipped military shorthand.

But the people he clipped were mostly members of his own profession.

And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.

The cops had heard that he clipped people at everything, from golf to throwing quarters at a crack in the floor.

The "thanks" clipped like a steel trap, and the business was completed.

Denton, who speaks in the clipped cadence of the Oxford-educated Brit he is, has built quite a castle.

It ranged high, moreover, and only clipped away a bit of the roof.

Dilly rose, and, as some one afterwards said, "clipped it right up to him."

But  “Studies show…” items can be clipped and pasted by…  By people like me.