clipped

English

Alternative forms

• clipt (archaic), clypt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɪpt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpt

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. 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.

Synonyms

• (circumcised): see also Thesaurus:circumcised.

Derived terms

• nonclipped
• overclipped
• unclipped

Verb

clipped

1. simple past and past participle of clip