clipper
/ˈklɪp.ɚ/ noun C1- Anything or anyone that clips.
- A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
- An Alberta clipper.
- An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- A confidence trickster; a conman.
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