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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope