1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. yankee clipper

Find the word definition

What is "yankee clipper"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yankee Clipper

Clipper \Clip"per\ (kl[i^]p"p[~e]r), n.

  1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.

    The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket.
    --Locke.

  2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

  3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship. -- Clip"per-built`, a.

    Note: The name was first borne by ``Baltimore clippers'' famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.

  4. (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform. Syn: limiter. Yankee Clipper,

    1. a clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper[3].

    2. Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.

Wikipedia
Yankee Clipper

Yankee Clipper can refer to:

  • The nickname of Joe DiMaggio, a Major League Baseball player
  • Yankee Clipper is a sea scout sailing vessel (Gaff Headed Ketch) in the city of Seattle.
  • Clipper ships developed by New Englanders in the mid-nineteenth century
  • A Pan American Airways Boeing 314 flying boat
  • The Apollo 12 command module
  • The Yankee Clipper refers to Mark Wahlberg's character in the 2011 film The Other Guys for shooting baseball player Derek Jeter.
  • Yankee Clipper (train), a passenger train service between New York City and Boston
  • Yankee Clipper (Harbour Cruise), a NY waterway harbour cruise
  • The American Aviation AA-1 Yankee Clipper light aircraft
  • The Yankee Clipper (1927 film)
  • Restaurant occupying the 170-176 John Street Building in New York
  • The Yankee Clipper (software) clipboard stack computer software product
  • The 1938 New England Hurricane, a powerful hurricane that struck Long Island and New England in September of that year.

Usage examples of "yankee clipper".

If you kill me, you know that the Yankee Clipper will figure out why you did it and then he'll kill you, because you'll have killed someone who could have made sure he never lost a battle.

I was in a fever of excitement as I tried to figure where it might be - we'd been westering, Southern Indian Ocean, and here was a small port, still important enough for a Yankee clipper to touch.

The beach behind the Yankee Clipper was nearly deserted, cast in a pinkish all-night dusk by the lights of the old hotel.

She moved into a hotel room ashore, in the Yankee Clipper, and after the cruiser took off without her, she somehow managed to affix herself to our group, saying that the lovely people on the Huckins were going to pick her up on their way back from Nassau, and she had begged off because she could not endure Nassau one more stinking time.