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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats