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clips it

clips it is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 clips it

What is clips it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Clips it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clip it.

Words near clips it in the dictionary

  1. clippock
  2. clippocks
  3. clippy
  4. cliprofen
  5. clips
  6. clips it
  7. clips someone's wings
  8. clips the church
  9. clips the wings of
  10. clipshear
  11. clipshears

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