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    [Verb]  | "clip" | \ ˈklip \


    1: encompass

    2: to hold in a tight grip : clutch

    3: to clasp, fasten, or secure with a clip

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan; akin to Old High German klāftra fathom, Lithuanian globti to embrace;

    [Verb]  | "clip" 


    1: to cut or cut off with or as if with shears

    2: to cut off the distal or outer part of

    3: excise

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa;

    [Noun]  | "clip" 


    1: any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook

    2: a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm

    3: something (such as a piece of jewelry) that is worn as an ornament or fastener and that is held in position by a clip

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Noun]  | "clip" 


    1: shears

    2: a 2-bladed instrument for cutting especially the nails

    3: something that is clipped: such as

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Noun]  | "clip art" 


    1: ready-made usually copyright-free illustrations sold in books, as part of a software package, or through a website from which they may be cut and pasted or inserted as artwork

    Origin: 1957 ;

    [Noun]  | "clip-clop" | \ ˈklip-ˌkläp \


    1: the sound made by or as if by a horse walking on a hard surface

    Origin: 1884 ;

     Imitative;

    [Noun]  | "clip joint" 


    1: a place of public entertainment (such as a nightclub) that makes a practice of defrauding patrons (as by overcharging)

    2: a business that makes a practice of overcharging

    Origin: 1932 ;

    [Noun]  | "alligator clip" 


    1: a spring-loaded clip that has jaws resembling an alligator's and is used for making temporary electrical connections

    Origin: 1935 ;

    [Adjective]  | "clip-on" | \ ˈklip-ˌȯn \


    1: attached with a clip

    Origin: 1909 ;

    [Idiom]  | "clip someone's wings" 


    1: to limit someone's ability to do or say things

    [Noun]  | "clip" 


    1: a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument;


      * e.g., " ... an unexpectedly low branch dealt him a clip to the head "



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    [Noun]  | "clip joint" 


    1: as in dive, key club;


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    [Noun]  | "clip joints" 


    [Noun]  | "clip-clop" 


    1: as in crash, crack;


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    [Noun]  | "clip-clops" 


    1: as in crashes, cracks;


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    [Verb]  | "clip" 


    1: to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument;


      * e.g., " ... a mother who's sad to see her little boy's curls clipped for the first time "



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    2: to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner;


      * e.g., " ... the pitch clipped the batter's helmet with enough force to knock it clean off his head "



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    [Verb]  | "clip-clop" 


    1: as in clop, clop-clop;


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    [Verb]  | "clip-clops" 


    1: as in clops, clop-clops;


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    [Verb]  | "clip-cloping" 


    1: as in clopping, clop-clopping;


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    [Verb]  | "clip-cloped" 


    1: as in clopped, clop-clopped;


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     [ "clip" ]

    1: Kill, assisinate.

      * e.g.,  ... If he doesn't pay, clip him. 

     [ "clip" ]

    2: Mafia slang

     [ "clip" ]

    1: not a roach but also not a blunt. in between.

      * e.g.,  ... you wanna smoke this clip with me? 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: tabacco rolled into a joint along with weed to help it burn, and to add a little kick

      * e.g.,  ... I only had half a gram so I rolled a joint with clip to fill it up. 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: Halfway blunt

      * e.g.,  ... I'm still got a clip from the L we smoke yesterday bro 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: A series of bullets on stacked vertically and used to load rifles faster than loading bullet by bullet. The clip is inserted throught the top and the slide is then pulled back.

      * e.g.,  ... The german K98 mauser was loaded by a clip. 

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    1: A device, generally a strip of metal or plastic, used to hold loose cartridges together to facilitate faster loading of a rifle or magazine. A clip has no spring or follower, therefore a magazine is NOT a clip.

      * e.g.,  ... The M1 Garand is fed by an 8 round en bloc clip. 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: A device that holds together or "clips" ammunition / cartridges in a bundle or inline. Used for quick insertion of cartidges into a magazine of a firearm.

      * e.g.,  ... Many people confuse clip and magazine. A clip is not a magazine! Extremely few firearms have a clip inserted into it to feed the weapon. 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: verb: to exctinguish a cigarrette in such a way as to make it relightable.

      * e.g.,  ... cigs are so expensive these days that i clip mine when i have to put 'em out, and finish 'em later. 

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    2: noun: a partially smoked cigarrette saved for later

     [ "clip" ]

    1: term describing a conditon that occurs in amplifiers and mixing equipment were a signal is put through the equipment that is beyond what that equipment can handle. This results in a chopping off or "clipping" of the signal done to a manageable level, which off causes the loss of some part of the signal. Keeping a signal at a level of clipping for more than a few minutes will kick a amplifier into "protect" mode until it cools off.

      * e.g.,  ... Musician to sound man "Keep my guitar turned up pretty good, but don't let it clip, That's what it did last night and it sounded like crap" 

     [ "clip" ]

    1: To hit or graze an object while in motion, usually at high speed.

      * e.g.,  ... That fighter jet flew so low it clipped the tree line with one of its wings. 

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