clip

To grip tightly.

To fasten with a clip.

Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

To hug, embrace.

"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...

What, fifty of my followers at a clap!

To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.

An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

She reads at a pretty good clip.

He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.

An embrace.

But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]

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.

A removable magazine of a firearm.

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

She clipped my hair with her scissors.

Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.

To curtail; to cut short.

All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.

Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries^([sic – meaning Counties]) of England, have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their Words after one Manner about the Court, another in the City, and a third in the Suburbs; and in a few Years, it is probable, will all differ from themſelves, as Fancy or Faſhion ſhall direct: All which, reduced to Writing, would entirely confound Orthography.

To strike with the hand.

I’ll clip ye round the lugs!

To hit or strike, especially in passing.

The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.

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.