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earclips

earclips is the plural of earclip.

Meaning of earclip

Noun

earclip (plural earclips)

  1. An earring that clips to the earlobe rather than being attached through a piercing.
    • In a pendant on a simple chain a few blue-white diamonds flashed; the stones that gleamed in her ear-clips were smaller but as fine in color.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 87
  2. An identifying tag for cattle.

Questions about earclips

What is earclips the plural of?
Earclips is the plural of earclip.

Words near earclips in the dictionary

  1. Earby
  2. earcap
  3. earcaps
  4. earclip
  5. earclipped
  6. earclips
  7. earcockle
  8. earcon
  9. earconic
  10. earcons
  11. earcuff

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