The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. i.
   To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
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         Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
                                                  --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Clip \Clip\, n.
   1. An embrace. --Sir P. Sidney.
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   2. A cutting; a shearing.
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   3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop
      of wool.
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   4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
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   5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron
      strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. --Knight.
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   6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a
      horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of
      the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. --Youatt.
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   7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
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   8. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing,
      clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
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   9. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in
      salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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   10. A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." --Kipling.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

clip
    n 1: a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be
         inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder,
         cartridge clip, clip, magazine]
    2: an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he
       succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a
       clip" [syn: time, clip]
    3: any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles
       together
    4: an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
    5: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping,
       snip]
    6: a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"
    v 1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the
         flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip
         off]
    2: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: trot, jog, clip]
    3: attach with a clip; "clip the papers together" [ant:
       unclip]
    4: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
       plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
       lop, dress, prune, cut back]
    5: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or
       its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom
       is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut
       short]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

CLIP

   1. Compiler Language for Information Processing.

   2. Common LISP in Parallel.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

CLiP

    A documentation extractor by Eric W. van
   Ammers that recognises a particular style of comments.  This
   style can be adjusted to suit virtually any programming
   language and target documentation language.  CLiP was designed
   to be compatible with hypertext systems.

   Version 2.1 runs on MS-DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix

   (ftp://sun01.info.wau.nl/clip/).

   (1993-11-18)