clipped

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɪpt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪpt

Verb

clipped

  1. simple past and past participle of clip

Adjective

clipped (not comparable)

  1. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
  2. (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
  3. (informal) Circumcised.
    • 1999, Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures, Feral House, published 1999, →ISBN, page 102:
      After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clipped.

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