1. Cut or trimmed by clipping
   "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"
    
2. (of speech) having quick short sounds
   "a clipped upper-class accent"

1. Cut or sever by pinching or cutting with small strokes of scissors, pruning shears, etc.
   "clip off the flowers";
   - nip, nip off, snip, snip off
    
2. Attach with a clip
   "clip the papers together"
    
3. Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
   "Personal freedom is clipped in many countries";
   - curtail, cut short
    
4. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "clip the plants in the garden";
   - snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
    
5. [informal] Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
   "the double agent was clipped";
   - neutralize, neutralise [Brit], liquidate, waste [informal], knock off [informal], do in [informal], whack [informal], take out [informal]
    
6. (computing) discard data outside a specific range of values, or assign out-of-range values to the nearest value in range
   "The function clips values to the range 0-255"
    
7. (computing, image processing) remove parts of an image or other data outside a specified area
   "They clipped the background from the portrait"
    
8. Run at a moderately swift pace
   "The horse clipped along the trail";
   - trot, jog

See also: bump off [informal], croak [informal], cut, despatch [Brit], dispatch, murder, off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], short, slay [literary], trimmed

Type of: attach, cut, kill, run, shorten, thin out

Antonym: unclip

Encyclopedia: Clipped