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clips the church

clips the church is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clip the church.

Meaning of clip the church

Verb

clip the church (third-person singular simple present clips the church, present participle clipping the church, simple past and past participle clipped the church)

  1. (UK) To hold hands in an outward-facing ring around a church, an ancient English custom traditionally observed by local communities on Easter Monday, Shrove Tuesday, or the church's saint's day.
    • In its revived form at Edgmond it constitutes part of the annual “feast” of the parish schools. The charity children clipped the church in Birmingham.2015, Felicity Trotman, A Year in the Life of Victorian Britain

Questions about clips the church

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

Words near clips the church in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clips the church (page history and authors); clip the church (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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