clip
/klɪp/
clip verb: to grip tightly.
Verb (1)
clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped)
- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip.
- Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
- To hug, embrace.
- "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is...1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines
- What, fifty of my followers at a clap!c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
Noun (1)
clip (plural clips)
- 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.
- He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
- An embrace.
- But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie...
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
Verb (2)
clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- She clipped my hair with her scissors.
- Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries^([sic – meaning Counties]) of England, have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ...1712 March 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J[onathan] Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […]...
- To strike with the hand.
- I’ll clip ye round the lugs!
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
- Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
- To assassinate; to bump off.
- It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe.2021, Peter McKenna, 10:49 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Michael Kinsella (Charlie Cox)
- Synonyms:
- whack
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- to grab or take stealthily.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.
- To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
Noun (2)
clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole
- Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 161
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- A season's crop of wool.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
- The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- A newspaper clipping.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- I went into the salon to get a clip.
- The condition of something, its state.
- Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Give him a clip round the ear!
- Oh sure, I got the odd clip under the ear.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 67
clip meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
clip in Hindi
- क्लिप, क्लीप
clip in Tamil
- கவ்வி, இறுகப் பிடி
clip in Marathi
- क्लिप, क्लीप, क्लिप करण्यासाठी
clip in Urdu
- گھیرنا, کاٹنا, کترنا, قابو میں رکھنا, قلم کرنا, قطع کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- clip in Bengali
- ক্লিপ, আঁকড়া, কর্ত্তিত বস্তু, ছেদন
- clip in Telugu
- క్లిప్, క్లిప్ చేయడానికి, క్లిప్ చెయ్యడానికి
- clip in Malayalam
- ക്ലിപ്പ്, ക്ലിപ്പുചെയ്യുക, ക്ലിപ്പ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- clip in Kannada
- ಹಿಡಿಗೆ, ತುಂಡಿಸು, ಸವರು
- clip in Gujarati
- ક્લિપ, ક્લીપ, ક્લિપ કરવા માટે
- clip in Sinhala
- ක්ලිප් කිරීම, ක්ලිප් කිරීම්, ක්ලිප්, කතුරකින් කැපීම
- clip in Assamese
- কিলিপ kilip
- clip in Arabic
- مِشْبَك mišbak, كْلِيبْ klīb
- clip in Vietnamese
- kẹp, ghim, cắt, xén
Examples of clip in a sentence
- Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
- White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Synonyms of clip
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Forms of clip
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | clips |
| present participle | clipping |
| past participle | clipped |
| past | clipped |
| past participle | clipt |
| past | clipt |
| Noun | |
| plural | clips |
Origin of clip
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”).
From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).
Words formed from clip
- alligator clip
- at a clip
- at a fast clip
- autoclip
- banana clip
- banker's clip
- bicycle clip
- binder clip
- bread-bag clip
- bread clip
- bulldog clip
- butterfly clip
- C-clip
- circlip
- claw clip
- clip art
- clipboard
- clip board
- clip-clop
- clip farm
- clip farmer
- clip font
- clipless
- cliplock
- clipnosis
- clip point
- clip strip
- crocodile clip
- cycle clip
- declipping
- earclip
- empty the clip
- en bloc clip
- endoclip
- finclip
- foldback clip
- foldover clip
- gem clip
- go at a good clip
- hairclip
- hair clip
- hair-clip
- handbag clip
- hemoclip
- hit a clip
- hose clip
- Inglefield clip
- Jesus clip
- Jubilee clip
- microclip
- money clip
- moon clip
- nipple clip
- noseclip
- O clip
- paper clip
- reclip
- roach clip
- sister clip
- Smallman clip
Phrases with clip
- clip in
- clip it
- tie clip
- clip show
- snap clip
- wool clip
- audio clip
- clip farms
- clip fonts
- clip joint
- clip shows
- sound clip
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- stick clip
- video clip
- clip boards
- clip farmed
- clip joints
- clip points
- clip strips
- clip farmers
- clip farming
- stripper clip
- clip the church
- emptied the clip
- empties the clip
- clip the wings of
- emptying the clip
- goes at a good clip
- gone at a good clip
- went at a good clip
- clip someone's wings
- going at a good clip
Words that rhyme with clip
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Questions about clip
- What does clip mean?
- Clip means to grip tightly.
- What is clip in Hindi?
- Clip in Hindi is क्लिप, क्लीप. See Clip meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use clip in a sentence?
- Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
- What part of speech is clip?
- Clip can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce clip?
- Clip is pronounced /klɪp/.
- What is the past tense of clip?
- The past tense of clip is clipped.
Words near clip in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clip (page history and authors); clip (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clip (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clip (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clip (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clip (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clip (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clip (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); clip (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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