Associations to the word «Clipped»

Wiktionary

CLIPPED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of clip
CLIPPED, adjective. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
CLIPPED, adjective. (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
CLIPPED, adjective. (informal) Circumcised.

Dictionary definition

CLIPPED, adjective. Cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle".
CLIPPED, adjective. (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King