CLIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clipped mean? 

• CLIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective CLIPPED has 2 senses:

1. cut or trimmed by clipping

2. (of speech) having quick short sounds

  Familiarity information: CLIPPED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or trimmed by clipping

Context example:

a clipped poodle

Similar:

cut; trimmed (made neat and tidy by trimming)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of speech) having quick short sounds

Context example:

a clipped upper-class accent

Similar:

short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)

 Context examples 

Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Good even to you, comrades! Hola! a woman, by my soul!” and in an instant he had clipped Dame Eliza round the waist and was kissing her violently.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She, too, soared high, but not so high as the quarry, and her teeth clipped emptily together with a metallic snap.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To prevent it: • Keep your feet clean, dry, and cool • Wear clean socks • Don't walk barefoot in public areas • Wear flip-flops in locker room showers • Keep your toenails clean and clipped short

(Athlete's Foot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Time was when your ears were clipped.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“May have its comb clipped if it make over-much noise,” broke in an Englishman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On this I plucked off the gown, and he with much show of haste did begin to undo his points; but when I threw his frock down he clipped it up and ran off all untrussed, leaving me in this sorry plight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second rogue, however, made of sterner stuff, rushed in upon the clerk, and clipped him round the waist with a grip like a bear, shouting the while to his comrade to come round and stab him in the back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The afforestation of the district, however, and its conversion into a royal demesne had clipped off a large section of his estate, while other parts had been confiscated as a punishment for his supposed complicity in an abortive Saxon rising.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)