Usually means: Fasten, attach, or hold together.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. clip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. clip, clip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clip, clip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clip, clip: Wordnik
  7. clip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clip: Wiktionary
  9. clip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CLIP: Dictionary.com
  13. clip (1), clip (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CLIP (protein), Clip (ammunition), Clip (film), Clip (firearms), Clip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clip, clip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. clip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. CLIP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. clip: Free Dictionary
  22. clip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clip: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Clip: The Word Detective
  25. clip: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. clip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. clip: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clip (disambiguation), clip: Legal dictionary
  2. Clip (disambiguation), Clip: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLIP, CLiP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. clip: Netlingo
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. CLIP (protein), Clip (disambiguation), clip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLIP, Clip: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Clip (disambiguation), clip: Medical dictionary
  4. CLIP, Clip: Drug Medical Dictionary
  5. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLIP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. clip: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLIP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. CLIP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, clip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Clip: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. the clip: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. CLIP: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. clip: Coin Collecting
  5. clip: Pen Glossary
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See clipped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To grip tightly.
verb:  To fasten with a clip.
verb:  (archaic) To hug, embrace.
verb:  (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
noun:  Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
noun:  An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
noun:  (obsolete) An embrace.
noun:  (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
noun:  (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
noun:  A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
noun:  (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
verb:  To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
verb:  To curtail; to cut short.
verb:  (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
verb:  To hit or strike, especially in passing.
verb:  (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
verb:  (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
verb:  (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
verb:  (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
verb:  (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
verb:  (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
verb:  To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
verb:  (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
noun:  Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
noun:  The product of a single shearing of sheep.
noun:  A season's crop of wool.
noun:  A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
noun:  A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
noun:  A newspaper clipping.
noun:  An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
noun:  (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
noun:  (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

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