Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clipped \clipped\ adj.
trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
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(music) staccato; -- contrasted with legato.
Syn: short.
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effectively concise.
Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate).
Wiktionary
WordNet
See clip
n. a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder, cartridge clip, magazine]
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]
any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"
v. sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, snip, snip off]
attach with a clip; "clip the papers together" [ant: unclip]
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
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]
adj. having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped wings cannot fly" [ant: unclipped]
(of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears" [syn: docked]
cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
(of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
Wikipedia
Clipped is a video featuring five tracks by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. First released in 1991, it contained three tracks from The Razors Edge and two from Blow Up Your Video.
In 2002 a DVD version was released which also included videos for the songs " Big Gun" (from the Last Action Hero soundtrack) and " Hard as a Rock" (from Ballbreaker).
The photograph on the cover was first used in 1990 for the single " Are You Ready".
Clipped is an American sitcom that premiered on TBS on June 16, 2015. The series stars Mike Castle and Ashley Tisdale. The series centers on a group of co-workers who all went to high school together but ran in very different crowds. Now they find themselves working together at Buzzy's, a barbershop. On October 23, 2015, TBS canceled the series after one season.
Usage examples of "clipped".
The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.
Troop Guide Bikaner had secretly clipped bits of hair from three of the court animals.
Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.
Aenea once told me that there used to be fixed carbon-carbon lines running the length of the slideway, and the sledders had clipped on to them much as we would a cableway or rappel line, using a special low-friction clip ring similar to the cable pulley to keep from losing speed.
He freed one hand from the wall and weaseled it into the thread glove clipped to a carabinier sling, then began rhythmically swinging the grapnel back and forth.
She spoke slowly and without the clipped accent Jewell and Carnie had.
Then he veered quickly to the right, clipped away two parking meters, and turned the cab off Hollywood onto El Centro Avenue.
There was a shot which clipped a splinter from a tree and ricocheted across the -trail in front, and a shout of warning, I was suddenly aware that I could only hear the thud of my own boots and I turned to see Harry sprawled on the ground and the chiclero running up to him with upraised gun.
Juts produced a tambourine and Cora had the uneasy sensation that she had clipped it.
Above it rose a cowpuncher hat, then a silk shirt with a string tie, and after that a sage baggage burro with clipped ears, a solemn-faced pony, and an Indian.
The others ducked down, and ducked further when a bullet clipped the top of a bronze helmet barely showing over the crenelations of the defense.
Only one scuttle was still uncovered by its deadlight, for, like the rest of the ship, all unnecessary openings were sealed, watertight doors clipped home in readiness for leaving harbour.
Taped to the inside of the locker was a picture of Orion Kronsteen in his Jack the Ripper makeup from London Screams, clipped reverentially from an old Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
Sorry, now, for his choice to secure his ship on the fringes to stay clear of tangled anchor lines and crowding, the brig captain gave clipped surrender.
The bruise of the garrote was still purple-red and angry under the clipped line of his beard.