What is the meaning of clipped?

verb

  • Sever or remove by pinching or snipping.
    • usage: "nip off the flowers"
  • Run at a moderately swift pace.
  • Attach with a clip.
    • usage: "clip the papers together"
  • Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
    • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent.
    • usage: "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

adjective

  • Cut or trimmed by clipping.
    • usage: "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
  • Of speech. ( having quick short sounds)
    • usage: "a clipped upper-class accent"
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APAWordNet. (2010). clipped. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/clipped/definitions/1170819
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "clipped" http://smartdefine.org/clipped/definitions/1170819 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, clipped, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/clipped/definitions/1170819>.
MLAWordNet. "clipped" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/clipped/definitions/1170819>
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