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clipped it

clipped it is the simple past and past participle of clip it.

Meaning of clip it

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)

Questions about clipped it

What is clipped it the simple past and past participle of?
Clipped it is the simple past and past participle of clip it.

Words near clipped it in the dictionary

  1. clipnosis
  2. clippable
  3. Clippard
  4. Clippards
  5. clipped
  6. clipped it
  7. clipped someone's wings
  8. clipped the church
  9. clipped the wings of
  10. clipper
  11. Clipper chip

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