clip
/klɪp/ verb B2- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip. · Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
He/she/it clips · Past clipped · Past participle clipped · -ing form clipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- clip
- He/she/it
- clips
- Past
- clipped
- Past participle
- clipped
- -ing form
- clipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
She solemnly clipped one of Diana’s curls.
Anne’s clipped head made a sensation in school on the following Monday, but to her relief nobody guessed the real reason for it, not even Josie Pye, who, however, did not fail to inform Anne that she looked like a perfect scarecrow.
He at once clipped the Jackdaw’s wings, and taking him home at night, gave him to his children.
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