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clipper
[ klip-er ]
noun
- Often clippers. (often used with a plural verb) a cutting tool, especially shears:
hedge clippers.
- Usually clippers. (usually used with a plural verb) a mechanical or electric tool for cutting hair, fingernails, or the like:
He told the barber, “No clippers on the sides, please.â€
- Nautical. Also called clipper ship. a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, especially a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity.
- Electronics. a device that gives output only for an input above or below a certain critical value.
- a person or thing that moves along swiftly.
clipper
/ ˈ°ì±ôɪ±èÉ™ /
noun
- any fast sailing ship
- a person or thing that cuts or clips
- something, such as a horse or sled, that moves quickly
- electronics another word for limiter
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Example Sentences
At night his tiny barber shop is a beacon of power with a TV playing music videos, strings of Christmas lights and the buzz of his hair clipper.
He is meticulously cutting a member of staff's hair with a pair of clippers, and says the good time credit scheme has made him feel positive about his time in prison.
I have nothing but raves about these small but sturdy clippers.
Although they were a force in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the clippers have flooded social media in a way that feels more pronounced, probably because so many more of us are consuming media online.
In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.
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