Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clip-on \clip-on\ adj. having a clip as the means of attachment; as, clip-on earrings; a clip-on bow tie.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. That attaches to something by means of a clip
WordNet
adj. attachable by a clip; "clip-on earrings"; "a clip-on bow tie"
Wikipedia
Clip-on may refer to:
- Clip-on tie, a bow tie or necktie that is fixed to the front of the shirt collar by a metal clip
- Clip-on lens, a dark sunglasses lens that can be clipped onto corrective eyewear
- Clip-on, a type of motorcycle handlebar
Usage examples of "clip-on".
Dapperly decked was he in the habit of the professional barlord: white shirt, black trews, black weskit and clip-on dicky bow, plus a very dashing pair of cufflinks whose enamelled entablatures spoke of a Masonic connection.
A thin young man of about twenty, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, brown slacks, a clip-on bow tie, and black shoes that looked like the kind mailmen wear, walked up the front steps and knocked on the door.
Arnold showed me into the living room, where an assembly line had been set up on the floor - fifteen paper bags with clown faces on them, fifteen packages of neat-looking barrettes (apparently, all the guests were going to be girls), fifteen sets of Magic Markers, fifteen tiny clip-on koala bears, fifteen candy bars, and fifteen beaded necklaces.
And, amigo with the onion, I know what's in the carta you wanted to bring round to my lodgings where my razor and antisolar spectacle clip-on and few dirty handkerchiefs have been long snapped up by those who had not, that night, yet been betrayed to the police by fat Napo.
She bounced up and down in her clip-on baby seat, causing everything on the table to bounce up and down in tandem.
Kieran had attached to the cable a small clip-on collar that would pick up the external magnetic fields generated by incoming and outgoing signals and transmit encodings of them to the Juggernaut via one of the devices that Chas and his crew had buried outside—it hadn't been by accident that they had picked the area between the two camps to sort their equipment.
The green and white checked cotton, probably permanent press, still looked fresh: crisp, carefully laundered, with little clip-on curtain rings.
I fiddled around with the clip-on microphone for a minute or so, then got comfortable with the slideshow remote/laser pointer.