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paper clips

paper clips is the plural of paper clip.

Meaning of paper clip

Noun

paper clip (plural paper clips)

  1. A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.
  2. (US, humorous) Listed after an amount of money to emphasize a lack of resources.
    • The rules of the game are to tap this fund only when you are down to ten cents and a paper clip.1956 January, Gladys Prieur Thomas, “Too much month... not enough money”, in American Mercury, page 13

Questions about paper clips

What is paper clips the plural of?
Paper clips is the plural of paper clip.

Words near paper clips in the dictionary

  1. paper cigars
  2. paper clamp
  3. paper clay
  4. paper clays
  5. paper clip
  6. paper clips
  7. paper crane
  8. paper cranes
  9. paper credit
  10. paper cup
  11. paper cups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper clips (page history and authors); paper 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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