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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Clipped} (kl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clipping}.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. --Shak.
2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped. --Macaulay.
3. To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. --Shak.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
clipped \clipped\ adjective
1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge. [WordNet 1.5]
2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with {legato}.
Syn: short. [WordNet 1.5]
3. effectively concise.
Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clipped See {clip}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clip
noun
1: a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: {cartridge holder}, {cartridge clip}, {magazine}]
2: an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: {time}]
3: any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
4: an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
5: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: {clipping}, {snip}]
6: a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"
verb
1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: {nip}, {nip off}, {snip}, {snip off}]
2: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: {trot}, {jog}]
3: attach with a clip; "clip the papers together" [ant: {unclip}]
4: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {crop}, {trim}, {lop}, {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
5: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: {curtail}, {cut short}] [also: {clipping}, {clipped}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clipped
adjective
1: having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped wings cannot fly" [ant: {unclipped}]
2: (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears" [syn: {docked}]
3: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
4: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "clipped": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated
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