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Answer for the clue "Lout repeatedly clipped child's toy ", 5 letters:
yo-yo

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down on a string by motions of the hand

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1915, apparently from a language of the Philippines. Registered as a trademark in Vancouver, Canada, in 1932, the year the first craze for them began (subsequent fads 1950s, 1970s, 1998). The toy itself is much older and was earlier known as bandalore (1802), ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Yo-Yo " is a song by British recording artist Nicola Roberts , released as the third and final single from Roberts' debut solo album Cinderella's Eyes on 6 January 2012. Originally, "Yo-Yo" was set to be Roberts' debut single, but " Beat of My Drum " ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wind; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist. 2 (context finance English) A volatile ...

Usage examples of yo-yo.

They dived deeper, through a band of pressure and temperature where water rain fell, pattering hard against the skins of their whirling double discs, then on down, down into even wide-light darkness, down to the warm hydrogen slush where the discs floated like giant double-cone yo-yos, bobbing, steaming, flickering signals to each other.

Everything he could think of that might help or amuse the Aucas, should they pay the men a visit, Jim put into the bag: harmonica, snakebite kit, flashlight, View-Master with picture reels, yo-yo, and, above all, the precious notebook of Auca language material, with the carefully arranged morphology file.

The Mark 12 Yo-Yo is dropped by a P-5 Pegasus patrol plane, is about ten feet in diameter, and pops out a small buoy that stays on the surface while the main body of it sinks to eight hundred to one thousand feet, whatever best listening depth is.

Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, he gets a phone call from some yo-yo named Liddy, whom he barely knows, saying that four Cubans he's never even met have just been caught in the act of burglarizing the office of the Democratic National Committee located in an office building about 200 yards across the plaza below his own balcony in the Watergate apartments.

And suddenly, at the very pinnacle of his power, he casually puts his initials on a memo proposing one of at least a dozen or so routine election-year bits of "undercover work" -- and several months later while having breakfast in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, he gets a phone call from some yo-yo named Liddy, whom he barely knows, saying that four Cubans he's never even met have just been caught in the act of burglarizing the office of the Democratic National Committee located in an office building about 200 yards across the plaza below his own balcony in the Watergate apartments.

Yo-yos, hula hoops and pogo sticks, with their associated behavioral fixed actions, sweep through schools, and more sporadically leap from school to school, in patterns that differ from a measles epidemic in no serious particular.

For the past fifty years, we have been at the mercy of OPEC, who has played with market prices like a yo-yo.

Harry, who had expected something much more exciting, saw a mess of small, everyday objects: a yo-yo, a silver thimble, and a tarnished mouth organ among them.

Somewhere there must be a common denominator to explain why it should be these five items and not five other things, say roller curtains and pogo sticks and yo-yos and airplanes and toothpaste.

Maybe you yo-yos did Its work, but It didn't exactly play favorites, did It?

But I was really surprised those yo-yos in the Bu­reau let you go afterwards.

Maybe I try too hard sometimes, bringing them yo-yos and stuff, presents every time I come.