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clippering

clippering is the present participle and gerund of clipper.

Meaning of clipper

Verb

clipper (third-person singular simple present clippers, present participle clippering, simple past and past participle clippered)

  1. (transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
    • Rocks was having his hair clippered by another prisoner when Collins calmly walked past and sliced open the side of his face without breaking his stride.2020 November 16, Dave Finlay, “Killer sliced open inmate's face while serving life for murdering dad and cutting up body”, in Glasgow Live

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Questions about clippering

What is clippering the present participle and gerund of?
Clippering is the present participle and gerund of clipper.

Words near clippering in the dictionary

  1. Clipper chips
  2. Clipper Mills
  3. clipper system
  4. clipper systems
  5. clippered
  6. clippering
  7. clippers
  8. Clipperton
  9. Clipperton Island
  10. clippest
  11. clippeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clippering (page history and authors); clipper (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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