Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: clipped
IPA transcription: [kl'ɪpt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: clipped
    Meaning: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
  • Synonyms: clipped
    Meaning: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
Usage examples
  • I clipped the advertisements and fastened each neatly to a sheet of notepaper.
  • Half blinded, Lanyard clipped the man round the body and hugged him tight, exerting all his skill and strength to effect a throw.
  • "For all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be clipped about duennas, so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even though it sticks.'"
  • A daily paper sprawled on the floor, gaping rectangularly where a railroad time-table had been clipped from it. Everything in the room spoke of a loss, of an essence gone, of its soul and life departed.