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paperclipping

paperclipping is the present participle and gerund of paperclip.

Meaning of paperclip

Verb

paperclip (third-person singular simple present paperclips, present participle paperclipping, simple past and past participle paperclipped)

  1. To fasten with a paper clip.

Questions about paperclipping

What is paperclipping the present participle and gerund of?
Paperclipping is the present participle and gerund of paperclip.

Words near paperclipping in the dictionary

  1. paperclay
  2. paperclip
  3. paperclip maximizer
  4. paperclip maximizers
  5. paperclipped
  6. paperclipping
  7. paperclips
  8. papercraft
  9. papercrafter
  10. papercrafters
  11. papercrafts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paperclipping (page history and authors); paperclip (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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