clip

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sharp slanting blow

   They gave me a clip on the ear.

2. 2
   verb

   to cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

   I clip the shrubs.

3. 3
   verb

   to attach with a clip

   clip the papers together

4. 4
   verb

   to sever or remove by pinching or snipping

   I clipped the extra string.

5. 5
   verb

   To fasten with a clip.

   Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

6. 6
   verb

   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 ...

7. 7
   noun

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

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

8. 8
   noun

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

   She reads at a pretty good clip.

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”).