1. Cutting down to the desired size or shape
   "The clipping of the hedge gave the garden a more manicured appearance";
   - trim, trimming
    
2. An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
   "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"; "She kept a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about her favourite actor"; "he searched through piles of letters and press clippings";
   - newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting

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

Derived forms: clippings

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

Type of: attach, cut, cutting, excerpt, excerption, extract, kill, run, selection, shorten, thin out

Antonym: unclip

Encyclopedia: Clipping