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clipn.1

Brit. /klɪp/, U.S. /klɪp/
Forms: Middle English–1500s clipp(e, 1500s clyp, 1500s– clip.
Etymology: < clip v.1
†1. An embrace. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun]
beclipping1340
complexion1493
clipa1586
brace1589
twine1602
fold1609
grasp1609
claspa1616
abrazoa1626
colla1627
cling1633
hug1659
folding1713
squeeze1790
cuddle1825
bear squeeze1845
bear hug1870
clinch1901
bosie1952
side hug1984
cwtch1992
bro hug2000
1560 Nice Wanton in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 180 Cards, dice, kiss, clip, and so forth.]
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 4 Not vsde to frosen clippes.
1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 124 If her fond clip With loose embraces oft his Neck surround.
2.
a. That which clips or clasps; an instrument or device which clasps or grips objects tightly and so holds them fast, e.g.A grappling-iron; an appliance for suspending a pot, that has no bail, by its ears or cleats; in Fishing, a gaff or cleek (Scottish); in Carriages, the embracing-strap which connects the springs and axle; in Farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of the toe of a horseshoe, which clasps the front of the hoof; a spring-holder for letters or papers, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hasp or clasp
haspOE
claspc1325
snatch1341
clampa1400
clip1488
keeper?1578
keep?1615
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 869 Athir [ship] othir festynyt with clippys keyn.
1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 183 In the kitchin..three yron crookes..thre paire of yron clippes.
1594 Churchwardens' Accts. Shrewsbury Abbey in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (1879) Three clypes of iron for settynge to the newe pylpitt vjd.
1737 in Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1776) 52 (Jam.) May be your pot may need my clips.
1791–9 Statist. Acc. Moray VII. 557 (Jam.) Long iron hooks, here called clips, are used for catching the fish.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 119 A clip..is placed over the axletree, and secures it in the bed to which it is bolted, and for other purposes.
1831 W. Youatt Horse xvii. 317 Clips are..necessary on the shoes of all heavy horses.
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea iv. 158 A landing-clip or gaff, such as is used in salmon-fishing, is useful.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 36 A spring clip h, for holding, if necessary, the objects under examination.
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Clip, a clamp of iron perforated at each end..applied as a bandage to a weak or fractured part of an implement.
1888 W. Rye Records & Record-searching 13 Clips like music-books with springs at the back..are better than a loose portfolio.
b. Croquet. A marker which may be clasped on a particular hoop to indicate it.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > hoop > marker on hoop
clip1872
1872 R. C. A. Prior Notes on Croquet 49 Sets..without a cross-bar to the pegs to fix a clip upon.
1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 23 The best clips..are made with a spring, so that the player has only to release his hold, and the clip, closing, fastens itself on the hoop.
c. transferred and figurative.
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1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. i. 147 Of every pair of Leaves, the half of one is reciprocally received between the two halfs of another, and may therefore be called the Cleep.
1877 G. Saintsbury in Academy 10 Feb. 113 The peculiar clip which keeps the characters of a novel together.
d. A receptacle containing several cartridges held together at the base for insertion bodily into the magazine of a repeating firearm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > cartridge > clip
clip1901
1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness vii. 146 The clip containing the cartridges for the Mauser rifle holds five rounds.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 651/2 The clip, employed in the Mannlicher system, is used with a magazine with parallel walls.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 654/1 The loading by clip.
1966 D. F. Galouye Lost Perception iii. 30 The rifle discharged an entire clip.
e. A piece of jewellery that is fastened by a clip; spec., an earring.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]
ringOE
beec1009
languet1378
Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406
tablet?a1425
fetterlock1463
serpent-tongue1488
triangle1529
flory1530
gorget1570
medal1578
tablet jewel1599
sprig1602
bracelet1624
medallion1658
croisette1688
torques1693
scarabaeus1775
crosslet1802
torque1834
teardrop1870
scarab1878
scaraboid1879
scarabaeoid1887
squash blossom1923
clip1937
1937 C. Beaton Diary 3 June in Wandering Years (1961) 310 Wallis, wearing a black dress and her huge diamond pear clips.
1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie i. 9 Mrs. Holst..only has the mingiest little diamond clip you ever saw.
1950 ‘J. Guthrie’ Is this what I Wanted? vii. 110 Pearl clips set off the ears, which were her most delicate feature.
1950 A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 114 Mummy was wearing her black costume with the diamond shoulder clip.

Compounds

C1. General attributive with the sense ‘that has, or acts as, a clip’
clip-drum n.
ΚΠ
1861 Times 11 July A simple..eight-horse engine..stationed at one corner of a field, with a clip drum on a separate pair of carriage wheels placed beside.
clip-lens n.
ΚΠ
1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vi. 45 This clip-lens is..better than a watch-maker's eye-glass.
clip-washer n.
ΚΠ
1868 Daily Tel. 3 July A 12-inch shell..struck the 15-inch portion of the target..damaging a clipwasher, and breaking a 2½-inch bolt.
C2.
clipboard n. a tablet of wood or other material bearing a spring-clip at one end for holding papers, etc.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > folder for papers > with clip
spring-back1863
clipboard1907
millboard1975
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 380/1 The ‘clip’ boards for patience and bridge... This board is fitted with nickel clamps on each side to keep it perfectly rigid.
1921 Instructions for Aerological Observers (U.S. Weather Bureau) 88 A simple apparatus which has proved to be both accurate and speedy is constructed as follows: It consists of an 11 × 13 inch clip board, upon which is mounted a celluloid or hard bristol-board backing.
1959 M. Bradbury Eating People is Wrong ii. 66 Treece found the driving test office and went in to look for the examiner. He..was clutching a clipboard.
clip-chair n. a chair used on some railways to secure the rail to a metallic sleeper.
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 200/2 The clip chair is of horse-shoe shape, one side forming a hook about 2 ¼″ wide, and the other side is like one jaw of an ordinary railway chair for taking a wooden railway key.
clip-hook n. a hook closing with a clip or spring (cf. clipper n.1 3, clevis n.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook
hookc900
haspedec1400
cleek1426
cleek-staffc1440
cramp1503
hock1530
gib-crook1564
cramp-iron1565
gib1567
cramper1598
bench hook1619
crampon1660
wall-hook1681
dressing hook1683
woodcock-eye1796
doghook1821
click1846
clipper1849
ice hook1853
witchetty1862
slip-hook1863
snap-hook1875
clip-hook1882
pelican1890
snake hook1944
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 129 Clipp hooks for the tack to hook to.
clip-loader n. a clip-loading firearm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > other small arms
long gun1530
currier1558
crabut1626
long arm1675
bullet-guna1701
hand cannon1752
wall-gun1812
walking-stick gun1823
shoulder gun1824
safety gun1825
gas gun1856
self-cocker1857
bolt action1871
snap action gun1875
saddle gun1886
multibarrel1899
dane gun1900
clip-loader1901
pump-action1923
sleeve gun1944
laser gun1961
phaser1966
magnum1970
1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 285/1 The most perfect clip-loader so far produced.
clip-loading n. the loading of a repeating firearm with cartridges in a clip (see 2d).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > [noun] > discharge of machine-gun > loading with clip
clip-loading1901
1901 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 4/3 The weapon to be adopted in the immediate future for the British Army..must positively admit of clip loading.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 654/2 A clip-loading repeating rifle.
clip-plate n. the axle-hand of a wheel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clipn.2

Brit. /klɪp/, U.S. /klɪp/
Etymology: < clip v.2
1. plural. Shears (esp. for wool).
ΚΠ
1681 Inv. in Biggar & House of Fleming (1862) 63 Ane pair of clipes 20/.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 181 A pair of clips, a graip, a flail.
1786 R. Burns Poems 67 A bonier fleesh ne'er cross'd the clips.
2.
a. That which is clipped or cut: a clipping.
ΚΠ
1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Clip, a short piece cut off; e.g. a pattern of cloth or calico.
b. spec. The whole quantity of wool shorn in any place, or in one season.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > quantity of wool shorn
fleecec1460
clipa1825
wool clip1862
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) ‘Farmer A. had but a very moderate clip this year.’
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 94 The clip of 1827 is large.
1867 Times 18 Nov. 7/2 Every prospect of an abundant clip.
c. An extract from a motion picture.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > extract from
still1916
film clip1942
clip1958
1958 Listener 3 July 30/2 Film clips from Jose Ferrer's film ‘Moulin Rouge’.
1959 H. Nielsen Fifth Caller xii. 188 She stared at the blowup of an old newsreel clip.
3. An act of clipping or shearing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) > an act of snipping, etc.
snip1676
clipa1825
shirl1897
snick1898
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped
roundinga1582
stumps1584
stubs1607
trim1608
tonsure1650
committee cut1691
rasure1737
crop1795
county crop1839
flat-top1859
prison cropc1863
clip1889
Dartmoor crop1930
razor cut1940
prison haircut1948
scissor cut1948
cut1951
pudding basin1951
short back and sides1965
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Clip, the act of shearing.
1885 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Jan. 6/6 Higher prices must naturally be expected between now and the next clip.
1889 N.E.D. at Clip Mod. colloq. I've just been having a clip at the barber's.
4. A smart blow, stroke, or ‘cut’. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > a sharp or smart blow
dab1300
rapc1330
thresta1400
bruntc1400
knap14..
yedderc1440
gird1487
yert1509
fillip1543
yark1555
flewet1570
stingera1577
flirt1577
wherret1577
riprapc1580
spang1595
nick1651
lick1680
flip1692
yowf1711
clink1722
wherrya1726
click1773
whither1791
swata1800
yank1818
snock1825
clip1830
snop1849
clinkera1863
siserary1893
blip1894
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. vi. 92 The master fires..and hits the cat a clip on the neck.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 89 He made a pull at the old fashioned sword..and drawin it out he made a clip at him.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Clip, a blow or stroke.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Clip, a blow or stroke with the hand; as ‘He hit him a clip’.
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xx. 243 When you did n't mind, I hit you a good clip.
1886 J. C. Harris in Cent. Mag. Jan. XXXI. 426/1 I'm a great mind to hit him a clip jest to show you how he can go on.
1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine iii. 20 My hoss..jist riz the dasher off'n my wagon the fust clip.
1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie xvii. 568 Robert..wasn't a smidgin behind, for every clip he had the answer ready.
5. A (specified) rate of speed; a rapid pace or motion. colloquial.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun]
speedc1175
passa1393
pace?a1439
strake1558
rate1652
velocity1656
rapidity1701
rake1768
bat1824
clip1868
tempo1898
work rate1906
pacing1958
1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. vi. 79 It is believed that he can go a four-minute clip.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 61/2 We are goin' wi' a clip now.
1893 Field 25 Feb. 295/3 In three days I could drive him any ‘clip’ I chose by just talking to him.
1893 Outing (U.S.) 21 457/2 Lastly, the bicyclists rode from six to ten miles daily at a stiff clip.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 6/3 As Shamrock returned the wind increased and the challenger with a magnificent burst of speed travelled at a 12-knot clip.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed vii. 90 You'll never finish your book at all at the clip you're hitting now.
1929 Minnesota Alumni Weekly 1 June 615 The infield was functioning at an improved clip during this second game.
1941 H. MacInnes Above Suspicion xv. 150 God, that dog can keep up a terrific clip.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iii. 10/1 Romance and marriage among corporations is rolling along at a torrid pace... The brisk clip continues this year.
6. An impertinent or forward girl. dialect and U.S.
ΚΠ
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 21 Clip,..a mischievous young girl.
1901 M. E. Ryan Montana xi. 139 She is a clip, and I know it, but I think she only meant that game as a bit of a joke.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
clip-mark n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > clip-mark
clip-mark1706
1706 London Gaz. No. 4236/8 A clip Mark N.A. on each side her Rump.
b.
clip-marked adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > branded or marked > shear-marked
clipped1680
clip-marked1683
shear-marked1696
1683 London Gaz. No. 1859/8 A brown Gelding..Clip-marked with I.D. upon both his Buttocks.
clip-winged adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > clipped
clip-winged1598
wing-tipped1850
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 148 A clipwingd Griffin and a molten rauen. View more context for this quotation
C2.
clip-collector n. one who collects for customers newspaper cuttings upon any special subject.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press-cutting agency > press-cutting > person who takes cuttings
clip-collector1888
press clipper1895
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 May 4/1 Messrs. Curteis, the clip collectors.
clip-house n. a clipping-house.
ΚΠ
1567 Acts Jas. VI (1814) 45 (Jam.) That clip-houssis [1597 §19 clipping-houses] be maid within evyry burcht quhair neid requiris.
Categories »
clip-shears n. Scottish dialect an earwig.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† clipadj.

Etymology: Possibly related to clip v.2 (Compare clean and clink = ‘completely’, in S. Chesh. Gloss. 1887.)
Obsolete.
In the phrase clip and clean = East Frisian klip un klâr (see Doornkaat-Koolman II. 267), with the somewhat vaguely defined sense of ‘Trim, ship-shape, in proper order, ready’.
Π
1710 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (1727) 75 Take the first, second, or third Quils in the Wing of a Goose or Raven (those that are round, clip and clean, are the best).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

clipv.1

Brit. /klɪp/, U.S. /klɪp/
Forms: Old English clyppan, ( clioppen, cliopen), Middle English cliopen, Middle English cluppe(n, Middle English clep(pe, Middle English–1500s clyppe, clyp, clepe, Middle English–1600s clipp(e, (Middle English clype, klyppe), Middle English– clip.
Etymology: Old English clyppan weak verb < Old Germanic type *kluppjan: compare Old Frisian kleppa in same sense (‘cleppa and kessa’ Richthofen); North Frisian klêbin to kiss (Johansen); also Old Norse klýpa to ‘clip’, pinch, and German kluppe ‘barnacles, corntongs’, Old High German chluppa tongs, clamp, split stick to grasp or hold. Outside Germanic, Hildebrand in Grimm, s.v. klafter, compares Lithuanian glôbti to embrace, and Old Church Slavonic glibnjati, glŭběti to be seized.
1.
a. transitive. To clasp with the arms, embrace, hug. archaic and dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]
clipc950
freeOE
beclipc1000
windc1175
fang?c1200
yokec1275
umgripea1300
to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300
umbefold14..
collc1320
lapc1350
bracec1375
embracec1386
clapa1400
folda1400
halsea1400
umbeclapa1400
accollc1400
fathomc1400
halchc1400
haspc1400
hoderc1440
plighta1450
plet?a1500
cuddlec1520
complect1523
umbfoldc1540
clasp1549
culla1564
cully1576
huggle1583
embosom1590
wrap1594
collya1600
cling1607
bosom1608
grasp1609
comply1648
huddlea1650
smuggle1679
inarm1713
snuggle1775
cwtch1965
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark ix. 36 Clioppende [Rushw. cliopende] wæs.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxix. 13 Ða aras he togeanes and clypte hine.
a1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 185 He openeþ swa þe moder hire earmes hire leoue child for to cluppen.
c1300 Beket 288 Hi custen hem faste and clupte.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 152 Hys fete..he cleppeþ, and swetly kysseþ.
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1169 He kisseth hire and clippeth hire ful ofte.
1460 Lybeaus Disc. 578 That oon held..A mayde yclepte yn hys arme.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 343 A wulf was founde clippende the hedde of seynte Edmunde.
c1500 Bk. Mayd Emlyn in Poet. Tracts (1842) 27 Bycause he coude clepe her, She called hym a whypper.
1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. I.j Venus sonne, whom she doth clip and kisse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vii. 29 Let me clip ye In Armes as sound, as when I woo'd in heart. View more context for this quotation
a1701 C. Sedley Poems in Wks. (1722) I. 19 He like the Bear of Love, her Body Clips.
c1840 T. Hood What can Old Man Do in Ballads Love will not clip him.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) ‘I seed 'em clippin' an cuddlin' one another agëan th' pin-fold.’
b. figurative.
ΚΠ
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xli. 298 Ðes worldgilp..þe hie clyppað & lufiað.
1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. 67 We..studyously..clyppe and in maner kysse it [sin].
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs v. ii. 28 in Purple Island The warmer sunne..With firie arms clipping the wanton ground.
1819 ‘B. Cornwall’ Dramatic Scenes & Other Poems ii Shall the grave Clip us for ever in its chilling arms.
c. transferred. Said of amplexicaul leaves.
ΚΠ
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 174 Large leaues..clipping or embracing the stalke round about.
d. with adverb or preposition complement.
ΚΠ
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 932 She clypped hyt up on here brest.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ix. 1133 In tyme of wark of gendrynge serpentes wralleþ and clippeþ hemself togideres.
c1530 Spirit. Couns. F vij That fynally I maye clyppe the to me.
e. absol. and intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (intransitive)]
clipc1305
halchc1650
clinch1900
c1305 Land Cokayne 173 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 161 Þilk monk þat clepiþ best..Of him is hope..To be sone uadir abbot.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 464 Cluppe we in couenaunt and ech of ous cusse oþer.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 63 That wife.. which clepeth with her adulterer.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Sabrine xxi. 3 I fast mine armes about her clipt did make.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 74 A swarme of Bees..a Bay-tree did attayne, Where leg in leg they cleaped fast [L. pedibus per mutua nexis].
2. transitive. To surround closely, encircle, encompass, ‘hug’. Also with about, in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround closely or tightly
clipc825
fathomOE
windc1175
truss1340
embracec1360
bindc1384
clasp1447
complect1523
circumplect1578
embrace1578
enclasp1596
entwist1600
beclasp1608
chaina1616
inclipa1616
corsleta1625
circumplex1632
enlace1633
entwine1633
comply1648
throttle1863
c825 Vesp. Psalter xlvii[i]. 12 Ymbsellað sion and clyppað hie.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. iv. 65 Þey [sc. angels] buþ so iclipped with þe habit of vertues.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 41 The dreadfull Sea which cleaps the same [sc. the Earth] about.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 2 As Amphitrite clips this Iland Fortunate.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 551 Yon fair sea, That clips thy shores.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 125 A snake her forehead clips.
1842 H. Taylor Edwin the Fair v. v The Northmen..clipped us round at Stoke.
3.
a. To grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > hold firmly, grip, or grasp
clipOE
agropeOE
gripec1175
clencha1300
umbegrip?a1400
clitchc1400
stablec1440
grappe?c1450
coll1490
spenda1500
strain1590
clutch1602
screw1617
fast-hand1632
grasp1774
nevel1788
firm1859
bear-hug1919
OE Genesis 1569 He lyt ongeat þæt him on his inne swa earme gelamp, þa him on hreðre heafodswima on þæs halgan hofe heortan clypte.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 271 The mekill barge had nocht thaim clyppyt fast.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiii. 169 The happy goishalk, we se..The sylly dow..he clyppis at the last.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 281 When grace was done, The Bolle in hande she clipt.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 117 The standard plates..clip..the transom.
1868 W. Collins Moonstone I. i. xviii. 298 Some soft yellow stuff, that..clipped her tight (in the form of a jacket) round the waist.
absolute.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 188 Powere hem failleth To clucche or to clawe, to clyppe or to holde.1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations The air clipp'd keen, the night was fang'd with frost.
b. To fasten with a clip or clips.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with hasp or clasp
haspOE
claspc1405
infibulate1623
clip1902
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 244 Page after page passed from under her pen. Then, clipping a dozen sheets together, she read them over.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/4 Permanently fixed instead of clipped-on fittings.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 220 He turned to the man, who was clipping a tiny mirror on to his bayonet.
1955 E. Bowen World of Love v. 84 She turned her head..clipped on earrings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clipv.2

Brit. /klɪp/, U.S. /klɪp/
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Middle English clipp-en, at first northern, and probably < Old Norse klipp-a (Norwegian, Swedish klippa, Danish klippe) in this sense. In same sense also Low German has klippen (Schütze), Frisian (Wangeroog), klip-pen, North Frisian klappen, kleppen. The Old Norse and Low German klippa , klippen , was probably identical with Low German klippen to make a sharp sound, cited under clip v.3, the application being transferred, as in clack , click , clank , clink , clap , from the sound to associated sharp actions; senses 6, 7, and clip n.2 4, show that the notion of cutting is not inseparable from the word. There may also have been onomatopoeic influence: in the utterance of clip, as of snip, there is a cut-short effect, which aptly suits the act.
1. transitive.
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a. To cut with scissors or shears, often with the notion of making trim and tidy. Also (chiefly U.S.), to cut out (a passage) from a newspaper or periodical; to excerpt.
b. To cut or snip (a part) away, off, out, from.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut off or away (with an instrument) > reduce by cutting away
eaveseOE
clipc1175
parec1300
forcec1440
trim1594
shrip1609
whittle1837
whittle1972
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4106 To clippenn swa þe cnapess shapp.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 318 Out he clippeth..Her tunge with a paire of sheres.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Jiv To clyppe heares, touser.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xlviii. 37 All heades shall be shauen, and all beerdes clipped [1611 clipt] off.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxii. 97 This ornament..will I clip to forme. View more context for this quotation
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xv. 204 The matrons clipt the haire of their heads to make cordage for engins.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 404 God, twice as it were..clipt the treasures of the Temple with the cisers.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 33 Dress up..your Strawberry beds, clipping away all their runners.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 112. ⁋2 [He] clipped the Wings..of his innocent Captives.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 12 To clip off a bit of his eloquent tongue.
1872 Harper's Bazar 6 Jan. 11 The following marriage notice is clipped from a Texas paper.
1873 C. Robinson New S. Wales 59 The following paragraphs, clipped from the..Morning Herald.
1884 Law Times 301/2 The man at the gate did not detain him to clip his ticket.
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Sept. 4 A suggestion for a college girl's vacation that should be clipped and pasted for reference next June.
1953 Encounter Nov. 5/1 He shifted to the weekly news-magazine..and began to clip stories.
1962 Listener 4 Oct. 529/2 The famous ‘Americana’ column which clipped from the regional press absurdities of all kinds.
absolute.1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues 1 Tell me where to clip.figurative.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4248 Uss birrþ clippenn all aweȝȝ. Þe flæshess fule wille.1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 185 The father's hour of rapture clips Hate from the heart.
c. To form or mark by clipping.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > clip or poll
polla1325
clip1680
1680 London Gaz. No. 1549/4 Stollen..a Black Brown Nag..an R clipp'd on the near Buttock.
d. to clip the wings of: literal to cut (a bird's) wings short so as to disable it from flight; hence, to check any one's aspirations or ambition, cripple his strength, resources, or action.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (transitive)]
letc888
shrenchc897
forstanda1000
amarOE
disturbc1290
impeachc1380
stopc1380
withstandc1385
hinder1413
accloy1422
hindc1426
to hold abackc1440
appeachc1460
impeditec1535
inhibit1535
obstacle1538
damp1548
trip1548
embarrass1578
dam1582
to clip the wings ofa1593
unhelp1598
uppen1600
straiten1607
rub1608
impediment1610
impedea1616
to put out1616
to put off1631
scote1642
obstruct1645
incommodiate1650
offend1651
sufflaminate1656
hindrance1664
disassist1671
clog1679
muzzle1706
squeeze1804
to take the wind out of the sails of1822
throttle1825
block1844
overslaugh1853
snag1863
gum1901
slow-walk1965
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > check (in) a course of action
stanchc1315
arrestc1374
checka1400
stem?c1450
stay1525
to take up1530
rebate1532
suspend1565
nip1575
countercheck1590
to nip in the bud1590
to clip the wings ofa1593
to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)1594
trasha1616
to scotch the wheels of1648
spike1687
spoke1854
to pull up1861
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. D1v Away to prison with him, Ile clippe his winges.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G4 Ist possible such sensuall action Should clip the wings of contemplation?
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 127 To clip the Wings Of their high-flying Arbitrary Kings. View more context for this quotation
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 339 If he could not succeed in clipping the wings of his restless neighbour.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 10 To clip the wings of our conceit.
2. spec. To cut the hair off; to poll.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > cut
shearc897
shavec1320
topc1330
dockc1386
clipc1405
pollc1450
roundc1450
coll1483
cow?1507
not1530
trim1530
tonse1555
benotte1594
decurtate1599
scissora1625
to set upa1625
tonsure1793
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 140 Wel koude he laten blood and clippe and shaue.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 2012 Yclypyd & yshaue Vp-on your hedys.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 95 Ȝe schal not..clip þe hed in to round.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xvi. 5 No man shall clippe or shaue himselff for them.
1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 39 They are brought to the Monastery, and then washed, clipped, and shaved.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 131 Hair-merchants..travel through the country, clipping the heads of the peasant-girls.
3. spec.
a. To shear (sheep); to cut off (their fleece or wool).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)]
shear900
clipc1175
lip1607
fleece1885
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1189 Þe shep onnfoþ. Meocliȝ þatt mann itt clippeþþ.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxxi. 19 Laban was goon to the sheep that shulden be clippid.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 §14 The same Wooll..[shall] be as it is clipped.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxii Yf your shepe be newe clypped.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiv. xiii. 516 Like a lamb when it is clipped, he [i.e. Christ] was silent.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 128 The price is..expected to fall..as soon as the flocks are clipped.
absolute.c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1164 Toles forto gelde and clype and shere.a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 22 A faire day the day before hee clippe, that the wooll may bee dry.1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 149 Women were sitting close under the wall, also clipping.
b. To yield on being clipped.
ΚΠ
1879 Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 238/1 There were..sheep in the pen that would clip as much or more wool.
4. spec.
a. To mutilate (current coin) by fraudulently paring the edges.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)]
roundc1400
wash1421
royna1475
clipa1513
rounge1540
diminish1569
scale1576
launder1612
sweat1785
shorten1857
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxiiiiv The kynges Coygne..was clypped & wasshed in suche wyse that it was therby wonderfully mynysshed.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 126 There should be no deceyt vsed by diminishing or clipping ye same.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2352/4 Such as clip and deface His Majesty's Coyn.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 620 To clip the coin was one of the..most profitable kinds of fraud.
b. absol.
ΚΠ
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxxiii In theyr wretchyd ryches to abounde The[y] clyp, they coyne.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths II. 241 A fellow was accused for clipping.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 623 The practice of clipping.
5. figurative.
a. To cut short, curtail, diminish.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > summarize or abridge [verb (transitive)]
abrevya1325
comprehendc1369
abridgec1384
shorta1390
suma1398
abbreviate?a1475
shorten1530
to cut short?1542
curtail1553
to knit up1553
to wind up1583
clip1598
epitomize1599
brief1601
contract1604
to shut up1622
decurt1631
to sum up1642
breviate1663
curtilate1665
compendize1693
epitomate1702
to gather up1782
summarize1808
scissor1829
précis1856
to cut down1857
to boil down1880
synopsize1882
essence1888
résumé1888
short copy1891
bovrilize1900
pot1927
summate1951
capsulize1958
profile1970
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)]
thinc900
narroweOE
smalleOE
slakea1300
adminisha1325
minisha1382
reduce?c1400
diminish1417
littlea1500
extenuate1555
enstraiten1590
scantle1596
scant1599
bedwarfa1631
epitomize1630
dwarf1638
retrench1640
stunt1659
to take in1700
belittle1785
dwarfify1816
reduct1819
micrify1836
clip1858
downsize1977
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > diminish (territories) [verb (transitive)]
clip1858
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 592 Pedan. Iudas I am, ecliped Machabeus. Dum. Iudas Machabeus clipt, is plaine Iudas. View more context for this quotation
1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 66 He pares, and clips the Scripture.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. iv. 94 Pfalz must be reinstated, though with territories much clipped.
b. spec. To cut (words) short; to omit by indistinct or hurried utterance syllables and parts of words; to pronounce imperfectly.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say hastily or confusedly > cut words short
clip1526
chop up1570
chop1865
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > form words [verb (transitive)] > contract or abbreviate
clip1526
curtail1553
abbreviate1598
contract1605
syncopate1605
syncopize1643
bobtaila1680
elide1831
apocopate1845
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiiiv Nat clippyng the syllables, nor skyppyng any worde.
1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. vii. 99 He [the Drunkard] shall lispe and clip his English.
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 81 He was pretty far overcome by the Champaign, for he clipped the Queen's English.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. xxvi. 311 Clipping her words in her vehemence.
c. absol. and intransitive.
ΚΠ
1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 76 Why pilfer you from my words? Why clip you?
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby The day begins to clip.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. at Clip ‘The days clip off sorely; we shall hev winter here afore we know where we are.’
d. To reduce, cut down; spec. of a speed-record or the like (frequently const. off).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
anitherOE
wanzelOE
lessc1225
slakea1300
littenc1300
aslakec1314
adminisha1325
allayc1330
settle1338
low1340
minisha1382
reprovea1382
abatea1398
rebatea1398
subtlea1398
alaskia1400
forlyten?a1400
imminish14..
lessenc1410
diminish1417
repress?a1425
assuagec1430
scarcec1440
small1440
underslakec1440
alessa1450
debate?c1450
batec1460
decreasec1470
appetisse1474
alow1494
mince1499
perswage?1504
remita1513
inless?1521
attenuate1530
weaken1530
defray1532
mitigate1532
minorate1534
narrow?1548
diminuec1550
extenuate1555
amain1578
exolve1578
base1581
dejecta1586
amoinder1588
faint1598
qualify1604
contract1605
to pull down1607
shrivel1609
to take down1610
disaugment1611
impoverish1611
shrink1628
decoct1629
persway1631
unflame1635
straiten1645
depress1647
reduce1649
detract1654
minuate1657
alloy1661
lower?1662
sinka1684
retreat1690
nip1785
to drive down1840
minify1866
to knock down1867
to damp down1869
scale1887
mute1891
clip1938
to roll back1942
to cut back1943
downscale1945
downrate1958
slim1963
downshift1972
1938 J. Hilton To you, Mr. Chips i. 40 The craze for clipping fifths of seconds raged elsewhere.
1947 P. G. Wodehouse Full Moon ix. 195 He did not know what the European record was..but he rather fancied that he had clipped a few seconds off it.
1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy v. 65 That..is how your grandfather clipped six seconds off Roger Bannister's mile.
6. intransitive. To move the wings rapidly; to fly rapidly. Also to clip it. archaic.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of hawk, etc.
mutea1475
mutessa1475
to put overa1475
feat1508
to check at the fista1529
feakc1575
souse1589
to clip it1616
embowel1618
unenterpen1647
gather1674
enterpen1736
scatter1771
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > fly (as) with wings > rapidly
flit1535
clip1616
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 2 O yee blessed Muses!.. Whose truest lovers neuer clip with age.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xii. 169 If she spring away, The wings of vengeance clip as fast as they.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. xiii. 293 How I would spring from earth, and clip away.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lxxxvi. 22 Some Falcon..flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
1850 H. Coleridge Poems II. 115 Wavy motion as, on wings unfurled, A seraph clips Empyreal.
7. intransitive (colloquial) To move or run quickly. Cf. cut v. 19. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log vx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 759/2 He clipped into the water with the speed of light.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 46 He sees a steam-boat a clippin it by him like mad.
1843–4 T. C. Haliburton Attaché viii I ran all the way, right down as hard as I could clip.
1886 Harper's Mag. Nov. 835/2 All that he could do was to take to his heels and clip down the steps and into the pung.
1897 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 317 Though he had to row at first, the wind soon sprang up and we were clipping along.
1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley xxvi. 283 Now and then searching bullets clipped and sung below him.
8. transitive. To hit smartly. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > sharply or smartly
daba1307
rap1530
flirt1570
knipsea1572
fillip1577
yowf1788
swata1800
snop1849
clip1855
snick1880
blip1924
1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says xii. 99 97's engineer clipped one of 73's men with a trumpet.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 90 Klip, to strike or cuff. ‘I klipped 'en under the ear.’
1961 New Statesman 1 Dec. 826/1 After hearing of the incidents in which his boy had been concerned he had ‘clipped him round the earhole’.
1963 Times 7 Feb. 3/3 A straight full toss which Bradman clipped back to the sight-screen.
9. To swindle; to rob, steal. (Cf. fleece v. 3) slang (originally U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1927 Vanity Fair Nov. 134/3 When a patron in a night club is ‘clipped’ he isn't punched, he's ‘taken’ or ‘gypped’ out of some currency or he is overcharged.
1932 J. Sayre Rackety Rax xvi. 132 He [sc. Capone] clipped the Doc in a deal.
1937 D. Runyon More than Somewhat 13 Here I am out to clip Miss Amelia Bodkin of her letters and her silverware.
1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle (1950) vi. 40 He'd just been clipped for thirteen hundred.
1958 Observer 15 June 14/3 A commination against London taxi drivers, delivered with the fervour of a guy who'd really been clipped.
1968 H. Waugh Con Game xix. 158 I'm not holding still like some people while their buddy-buddy pals clip them for nine thousand bucks.

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e. Computing. To process (a displayed image) so as to remove those parts that lie outside a specified area. Also absol.
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society > computing and information technology > software > load system [verb (transitive)] > reduce graphics
clip1968
society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (intransitive)] > reduce displayed image
clip1968
1968 [implied in: Proc. AFIPS Conf. 33 766/1 Windowing may..be performed by clipping, the process of discovering which portions of a drawing are within the window and computing appropriate scope coordinates for them. (at clipping n.2 Additions b)].
1973 W. M. Newman & R. F. Sproull Princ. Interactive Computer Graphics vii. 121 Ideally the information that is passed to the display should be clipped, i.e. restricted to just those parts that lie on the screen.
1982 Computerworld 8 Nov. 87/2 An engineer can execute..functions such as real zoom or scale, translate, clip, rotate, [etc.].
1982 J. E. Scott Introd. Interactive Computer Graphics ix. 183 The graphics package provides a full range of two- and three-dimensional viewing transformations, including window selection, viewport assignment, and clipping.
1984 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 69/4 The DM-40 also will clip, window, viewport and scale to six size.

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transitive. North American slang. To kill, esp. by shooting.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting
shootc893
shootc1275
to blow away1523
carry1653
to shoot (a person) down1845
stop1845
blow1871
ventilate1875
Maxim1894
poop1917
to blow apart1920
smoke1926
clip1927
cowboy1941
zap1942
Sten-gun1949
to light up1967
slot1987
1927 in Amer. Speech (1928) 3 254 He might ‘clip’ a ‘harness bull’ who got hep to him.
1930 J. Lait Put on Spot xiv. 112 He spilled..who clipped Kinky King, why and how.
1988 J. D. Pistone & R. Woodley Donnie Brasco xii. 206 A wiseguy does not go around asking who clipped the boss.
2003 National Post (Canada) 19 Mar. (Arts & Life section) 5/3 The best bit of reporting I've yet seen on why the U.S. doesn't just clip Saddam and get it over with.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† clipv.3

Forms: Also Middle English clyppen, cleppen.
Etymology: Compare Old Frisian klippa , kleppa to ring (a bell), Low German klippen to sound, resound, East Frisian klippen to clink, etc., German dialect kliffen to yelp < original type klip(p)jan , < root klip(p)- , in ablaut relation to *klap(p- : see clap n.1 and clepe v.
Obsolete.
To clink, to ring (a bell).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)]
knellc961
ring?a1300
clipc1440
to ring outc1453
knoll1467
tolla1513
ting1552
jowa1572
tinglea1657
taratantar1840
clock1858
clapper1872
jowl1872
chime1880
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum Cleppyn or clynchyn ( Pynson 1499, clippyn or clynkyn), Tinnio. Clepyng (MS. 1490 cleppynge or clyngynge of a bell).—Clynkyn supra in clyppyn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† clipv.4

Etymology: Shortened < clipse n., the final s being taken as inflectional. So East Frisian klip, klips.
= eclipse v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [verb (intransitive)] > eclipse
eclipse1393
dark1485
clipc1500
immerge1704
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [verb (transitive)] > eclipse
clipse1398
eclipsec1485
clipc1500
enclipse1606
occult1765
c1500 Roberte Deuyll (1798) 21 The cloudes had in clypped [in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 237 y-clypped] the Sunne of grace.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 426 The clere Sune neuer clippit out of course yet, But whan Criste on the crosse for our care deghit.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 44 The soune is maid obscure til vs quhen it clips.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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