n
(colloquial) Clipping of Instagram. [(Internet) An online photo-sharing service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.]
adj
(Internet slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of admiring; used to describe individuals admiringly viewing the physiques of bodybuilders. [Feeling or showing admiration.]
n
(slang) Clipping of institute. [An organization founded to promote a cause]
v
(transitive) To clip around or about (the edges of); crop.
n
(informal) Clipping of black operation. [A covert operation typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and outside of standard military protocol.]
v
(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
n
(informal) Clipping of Brachyrhaphis.
n
(software) Clipping of builtin function.
n
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
v
(idiomatic, archaic) To move swiftly.
v
(historical) To hold hands in an outward-facing ring around a church, an ancient English custom traditionally observed by local communities on Easter Monday, Shrove Tuesday, or the church's saint's day.
n
A kind of scrapbook for keeping clippings.
adj
Capable of being clipped.
n
(historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
n
(computing, historical) A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies.
n
(Britain, slang) A female bus conductor.
n
(British dialect) The act of clasping.
adj
Clipping of conditional. [Limited by a condition.]
adj
(slang) Clipping of creationist. [Of or relating to creationism.]
n
(countable) A newspaper clipping.
adj
(colloquial) clipping of favorite.
n
(slang) Clipping of limousine. [An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.]
adv
(slang) Clipping of obviously. [In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.]
n
Clipping of people's microphone. [A means of delivering a speech to a large crowd, where the speaker says a few words at a time, and people within hearing of the speaker repeat it in unison. Used to work around police bans of electronic amplifiers.]
v
(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
adj
(UK, slang) Clipping of positive. [Not negative or neutral.]
n
(informal) Clipping of problem. [A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.]
n
(informal) Clipping of professional. [A person who belongs to a profession]
n
(motor racing, slang) Clipping of qualifying. [A qualification or added condition.]
n
(colloquial) Clipping of renovation. [An act, or the process, of renovating.]
n
(often hyphenated when used attributively) A ceremonial or formal opening of a building or street performed by cutting a ribbon stretched across the entrance.
n
(uncommon, possibly dated) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
n
(economics) An economic crisis caused by price scissors, that is, an unfavourable divergence in the prices paid by a particular group or country for products that it needs as against the prices of the products that it produces.
adv
In the manner of scissors, with two blades (or similar) opening in opposite directions.
adj
Clipping of Seychellois. [From, or pertaining to, Seychelles.]
v
To create a shorter video or audio clip from a longer one.
n
Clipping of Transformers. (the franchise)
n
An accessory or accompaniment.
n
One who, or that which, unclips.
n
(slang) Clipping of usual. [The typical state of something, or something that is typical.]
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