'Clipped' definitions:
Definition of 'clipped'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
adjective
(of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
Definition of 'Clipped'
From: GCIDE
- Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (kl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
- 1. To embrace, hence; to encompass. [1913 Webster]
- O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. [1913 Webster]
- Sentenced to have his ears clipped. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To curtail; to cut short. [1913 Webster]
- All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'clipped'
From: GCIDE
- clipped \clipped\ adj.
- 1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with legato.
- Syn: short. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. effectively concise.
- Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'clipped'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- Spartan,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated