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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. cut or trimmed by clipping;
- Example: "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"
- Example: "clipped hedges"
- Example: "close-clipped lawns"
- Example: "a clipped poodle"

2. (of speech) having quick short sounds;
- Example: "a clipped upper-class accent"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

clipped adj 1: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle" 2: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "clipped": Spartan, 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, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated