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Added 9 October 2026

clip

/klɪp/ verb

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about clip at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
To hug, embrace.

noun

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
An embrace.

verb

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
To curtail; to cut short.
To strike with the hand.
I’ll clip ye round the lugs!

noun

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
The product of a single shearing of sheep.
A season's crop of wool.

Origin

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

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