clipped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. cut or trimmed by clipping“a handsome man with a clipped moustache”“clipped hedges”“close-clipped lawns”“a clipped poodle”
  2. (of speech) having quick short sounds“a clipped upper-class accent”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. [1913 Webster]

Sentenced to have his ears clipped.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

3.To curtail; to cut short. [1913 Webster]

All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.— Swift.[1913 Webster]
clipped \clipped\ adj.

1.trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge. [WordNet 1.5]

2.(music) staccato; -- contrasted with legato.

Syn: short. [WordNet 1.5]

3.effectively concise.

Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]

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