Crossword clues for clippers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clippers \clippers\ n.
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a type of shears for cutting grass or shrubbery; as, hedge clippers.
Syn: clipper, hedge clippers.
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a cutting device for cutting hair or finger nails; as, nail clippers.
Syn: clipper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shears-like cutting tool for hair, etc.," 1876, agent noun from clip (v.1). Earlier they were clipping shears (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (plural of clipper English) Etymology 3
n. A tool for clipping something.
WordNet
Usage examples of "clippers".
The feeling of being watched slips from him, although the figure outside the studio door - the thing wearing the bee slippers and holding the hedge clippers - never moves.
He is now scowling bitterly and gnashing the hedge clippers in front of the glass.
Before he can feel anything like satisfaction, he hears the sound of the hedge clippers slicing the air before they bite into his knife hand.
And then, as if the hedge clippers were the Fisherman's last contact with him, he is free.
We note that Ol' Burny, our Burn-Burn, hugs Henry Leyden's hedge clippers to his sunken chest with both arms, actually cradling them, as if he were holding a baby.
Back then he thought of the clippers as a big, primitive variety of knife, but when he got stabbed in the arm, he jerked the clippers toward the blind man and they more or less bit off his fingers by themselves, as neatly and swiftly as the old-time butchers in Chicago used to slice bacon.
Because he will have to pass the nurse's station, he shoves the clippers under his waistband and covers them with his shirt.
Burny slops nearer the station and considers using the clippers on Georgette's face, but decides it is not worth the waste of energy.
Burnside yanks the clippers out of his belt, grips the handles, and clips off her fingers as easily as if they were twigs.
She tries to get her hands on the clippers, but he pulls them from her neck and raises them to her head.
Burny tucks the clippers into the back of his waistband and yanks at his wet shirt, pulling it away from his body.
Burny rams one blade into Chipper's mouth and closes the clippers on his sweaty cheek.
Burny yanks on the clippers, and several teeth and a portion of Chipper's tongue fly from the yawning wound.
Burnside drops the clippers onto Chipper's broad back and regrets that he does not have the time to piss on his body or take a dump on his head, but Mr.
Surrounding her were the rest of the fleet’s warships, the troopships of the expeditionary force, and the merchantmen and opium clippers of the China traders.