clip

Meaning

Verb

1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.
3. To hug, embrace.
4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Noun

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.
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.
7. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Noun

1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
2. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
3. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
4. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
5. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
6. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
7. The condition of something, its state.
8. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

Synonyms

cut

trim

snip

shear

cut off

prune

lop

clamp

🗜️

clipping

nip

crop

paper clip

trim off

pinch

curtail

mow

magazine

clasp

fasten

time

⌚

sever

nip off

chop

cut short

dress

👗

cut out

jog

snick

cartridge holder

trot

pluck

shave

reap

pin

fastener

pare

cartridge clip

cut back

button

carve

shearing

shears

hold

strike

paper-clip

squeeze

paperclip

📎

swat

clothespin

abridge

grip

amputate

truncate

clippers

buckle

run over

snip off

slice

scissor

scissors

✂️

knock

haircut

💇

hairpin

harvest

hash

#️⃣

hew

hit

holder

hold in

hook up

hurt

interlock

interrupt

jam

jangle

join

jounce

keep down

keeper

key

🔑

knot

🪢

leash

lessen

little bit

lock

🔒

n

n

nail

nick

overrun

pare off

peel

peg

pick

⛏️

pin down

pliers

poll

press

punish

razee

reduce

restrain

retrench

safety pin

🧷

saw

🪚

sequence

shiver

shorten

shut off

skin

slacken

slam

slap

sliver

slosh

smack

smite

span

spank

splice

splinter

staple

stapler

stifle

sting

strangulate

strike down

strip

swindle

syndicate

taste

terminal

thrash

thrust

tie

tighten

tit

tongs

tuck in

tweezers

whop

cut hair

lop off

pick fruit

stroke

letter-clip

trim hair

hold tightly

firing chamber

gun chamber

trouser clip

rail fastening

intermediate plate

office clip

clamp clip terminal

contain

wire ferrule

ally

associate

attach

bang

beating

binder

bite

bottle up

box

📦

brace

break

break up

break with

bulldog clip

bump

case

casket

chatter

check

chime

chop off

clank

clap

👏

clench

clinch

clink

clip-on

clobber

clutch

coffer

collar

compress

conjoin

connect

constrict

control

cow

🐮

cramp

crowd together

crush

curb

cutting

detail

diminish

disrupt

divide

dock

embrace

encircle

encompass

enfold

extract

fastening

fell

fleece

folder

gather

govern

gripe

hackle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɪp/

Etymology

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).