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Meaning of CLIPPED

Pronunciation:  klipt

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
  2. [adj]  cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
  3. [adj]  having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped wings cannot fly"
  4. [adj]  (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears"
 
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 Synonyms: cropped, cut, docked, short, trimmed
 
 Antonyms: unclipped
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, Spartan, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated
 

 

 

 

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