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1. Cut or trimmed by clipping
   "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
    
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. Run at a moderately swift pace
   - trot, jog
    
3. Attach with a clip
   "clip the papers together"
    
4. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "clip the plants in the garden";
   - snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
    
5. Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
   "Personal freedom is clipped in many countries";
   - curtail, cut short
    
6. (computing) discard data outside a specific range of values, or assign out-of-range values to the nearest value in range; remove parts of an image etc. outside a given area

See also: cut, short, trimmed

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

Antonym: unclip

Encyclopedia: Clipped