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Clipper chips

Clipper chips is the plural of Clipper chip.

Meaning of Clipper chip

Noun

Clipper chip (plural Clipper chips)

  1. (historical) A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and having a back door to allow decryption by the government.

Questions about Clipper chips

What is Clipper chips the plural of?
Clipper chips is the plural of Clipper chip.

Words near Clipper chips in the dictionary

  1. clipped someone's wings
  2. clipped the church
  3. clipped the wings of
  4. clipper
  5. Clipper chip
  6. Clipper chips
  7. Clipper Mills
  8. clipper system
  9. clipper systems
  10. clippered
  11. clippering

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