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clippers

US/ˈklɪpɚz/

clippers is the plural of clipper.

Meaning of clipper

Noun

clipper (plural clippers)

  1. Anything or anyone that clips.
    • Yes, perhaps I’d better begin there, at the moment when I […] asked a question carelessly enough of one of the locals, who was clipping a hedge in a desultory fashion nearby. […] When I passed my hedge clipper again, he said, […]1967, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Endless Night, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1968, →LCCN, book 1, pages 2 and 5
  2. (in plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  3. Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
    • And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights,1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Mary Gloster
  4. (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  5. An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
  6. A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

See all 12 meanings of clipper

Noun

clippers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A tool for clipping something.
    • TAI: One time I was using some clippers to trim downstairs and I totally caught my labia.2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1697: Whoa Ooh Ahh Oww

Proper noun capitalized: Clippers

Clippers

  1. (plural) plural of Clipper

Words formed from clippers

Phrases with clippers

Questions about clippers

What does clippers mean?
Clippers means a tool for clipping something.
What is clippers the plural of?
Clippers is the plural of clipper.
What part of speech is clippers?
Clippers can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce clippers?
Clippers is pronounced /ˈklɪpɚz/ (US).

Words near clippers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clippers (page history and authors); Clippers (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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