clip

verb

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 cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...”

   “What, fifty of my followers at a clap!”

   “When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his”

   “White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.”

4. (slang)To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
5. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

   “She clipped my hair with her scissors.”

   “Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.”

   “sentenced to have his ears clipped”

6. To curtail; to cut short.

   “All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.”

   “Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries^([sic – meaning Counties]) of England, have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.”

7. (dialectal, informal)To strike with the hand.

   “I’ll clip ye round the lugs!”

8. To hit or strike, especially in passing.

   “The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.”

9. To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
10. To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.

    “The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.”

11. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
12. (ambitransitive)To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).

    “The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.”

    “Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.”

    “Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!”

13. (slang)To assassinate; to bump off.

    “It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe.”

14. (slang, transitive)To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
15. (slang, transitive)to grab or take stealthily.
16. To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.

    “I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.”

17. (transitive)To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.

noun

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

   “Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.”

2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

   “She reads at a pretty good clip.”

   “He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.”

3. (obsolete)An embrace.

   “But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]”

4. A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
5. (colloquial)A removable magazine of a firearm.
6. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.

   “1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels”

7. (Scotland, UK)A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
8. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole

   “Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats.”

9. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
10. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
11. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

    “The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.”

    “The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.”

12. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
13. (countable, uncountable)Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
14. (countable, uncountable)An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

    “I went into the salon to get a clip.”

15. (Geordie, uncountable)The condition of something, its state.

    “Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!”

16. (countable, informal, uncountable)A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

    “Give him a clip round the ear!”

    “Oh sure, I got the odd clip under the ear.”