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clipt

clipt is the simple past and past participle of clip.

Meaning of clip

Verb (1)

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

  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
    • Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
  3. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
    • "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is...1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines
  4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Verb (2)

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

  1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
    • She clipped my hair with her scissors.
  2. To curtail; to cut short.
    • All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Forms of clipt

alternative formclipped

Words formed from clipt

Questions about clipt

What is clipt the simple past and past participle of?
Clipt is the simple past and past participle of clip.

Words near clipt in the dictionary

  1. clipsheets
  2. clipsing
  3. clipsome
  4. Clipston
  5. Clipstone
  6. clipt
  7. clipweed
  8. clique
  9. clique number
  10. clique numbers
  11. clique tree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clipt (page history and authors); clip (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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