ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Clipped', Synonyms of 'Clipped' & More on 'Clipped'

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

clipped
    adj 1: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a
           clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped
           lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
    2: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class
       accent"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (kl[i^]pt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to
   embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs,
   shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to
   cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
   1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
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            O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee
            about,
            Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
      hair; to clip coin.
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            Sentenced to have his ears clipped.   --Macaulay.
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   3. To curtail; to cut short.
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            All my reports go with the modest truth;
            No more nor clipped, but so.          --Shak.
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            In London they clip their words after one manner
            about the court, another in the city, and a third in
            the suburbs.                          --Swift.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clipped \clipped\ adj.
   1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
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   2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with legato.

   Syn: short.
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   3. effectively concise.

   Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the
        point(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]

Thesaurus Results for clipped:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

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