Definitions for clipper

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clipper clip·per

Spelling: [klip-er]

IPA: /ˈklɪp ər/

Clipper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in clipper (ceilppr).

Definitions for clipper

noun

1. a person or thing that clips or cuts.
2. Often, clippers. (often used with a plural verb) a cutting tool, especially shears:
3. Usually, clippers. (usually used with a plural verb) a mechanical or electric tool for cutting hair, fingernails, or the like: .
4. Nautical.. Also called clipper ship. a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, especially a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity.
5. Electronics. a device that gives output only for an input above or below a certain critical value.
6. a person or thing that moves along swiftly.

Origin of clipper

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at clip¹, -er¹

Examples for clipper

You'll see this boy on the quarter deck of a clipper one of these days.

Then you graduated to clipper and finally to researcher—or fact-checker.

He helped draft the Computer Security Act of 1987 and organized the campaign against the "clipper" chip in 1994.

Los Angeles clipper Chris Paul has a pair of $325 Barena Venezias.

Alfred was all of one rainy Sunday reading that copy of the clipper.

Entering the clipper office he found Alfred the only person in.

Night was drawing near, and the clipper was slipping fast away from us.

There are clipper sloops, clipper yachts, clipper ships, etcetera.

The Sophia was a clipper; and made the run out in a few days.

If I had an oar or somethin' to steer this clipper with, maybe we could git into shoal water.