Usually means: Fast sailing ship for trade.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. clipper: Merriam-Webster
  2. clipper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clipper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clipper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clipper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clipper, clipper: Wordnik
  7. clipper: Wiktionary
  8. clipper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. clipper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. clipper: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Clipper, clipper: Dictionary.com
  12. clipper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Clipper (automobile), Clipper (disambiguation), Clipper (electronics), Clipper (lighter), Clipper (nickname), Clipper (programming language), Clipper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Clipper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. clipper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. clipper: Rhymezone
  17. Clipper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. clipper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. CLIPPER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Clipper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. clipper: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clipper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clipper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clipper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clipper: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. clipper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clipper, clipper, clipper, clipper, clipper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clipper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clipper: Electronics
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Clipper: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Clipper)

noun:  Anything or anyone that clips.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
noun:  Something that moves swiftly; especially:
noun:  (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
noun:  (informal) An Alberta clipper.
noun:  (entomology) An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
noun:  (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
noun:  (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
noun:  (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) Anything showy or first-rate.
verb:  (transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.

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