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clip it

clip it verb: to move swiftly.

Verb

clip it (third-person singular simple present clips it, present participle clipping it, simple past and past participle clipped it)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To move swiftly.
    • Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)
    • That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Forms of clip it

third-person singular presentclips it
present participleclipping it
past participleclipped it
pastclipped it

Questions about clip it

What does clip it mean?
Clip it means to move swiftly.
What part of speech is clip it?
Clip it is a verb.
What is the past tense of clip it?
The past tense of clip it is clipped it.

Words near clip it in the dictionary

  1. clip farming
  2. clip farms
  3. clip font
  4. clip fonts
  5. clip in
  6. clip it
  7. clip joint
  8. clip joints
  9. clip point
  10. clip points
  11. clip show

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