To grip tightly.
To fasten with a clip.
Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
She clipped my hair with her scissors.
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
She reads at a pretty good clip.
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, ...
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