# clip
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: klĭp, IPA: /klɪp/, [kʰl̥ɪp]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

#### Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped)
* To grip tightly.
* To fasten with a clip.
    Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
* (archaic) To hug, embrace.
** c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
** 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
* (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

##### Derived terms

* clippable
* clipsome
* clip the church

##### Translations
#### Noun

clip (plural clips)
* 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.
* (obsolete) An embrace.
** c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 8, page 521: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: […]
* (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.
* (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
* 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.
** 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
    The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels
* (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

##### Derived terms

* alligator clip
* at a clip
* at a fast clip
* autoclip
* banana clip
* banker's clip
* bicycle clip
* binder clip
* bread-bag clip
* bread clip
* bulldog clip
* butterfly clip
* C-clip
* circlip
* claw clip
* clip art
* clipboard, clip board
* clip-clop
* clip farm
* clip farmer
* clip font
* clipless
* cliplock
* clipnosis
* clip point
* clip strip
* crocodile clip
* cycle clip
* declipping
* earclip
* empty the clip
* en bloc clip
* endoclip
* finclip
* gem clip
* go at a good clip
* hair-clip
* hairclip
* hair clip
* hemoclip
* hose clip
* Inglefield clip
* Jesus clip
* Jubilee clip
* microclip
* money clip
* moon clip
* noseclip
* O clip
* paper clip
* reclip
* roach clip
* sister clip
* Smallman clip
* sound clip
* stick clip
* stripper clip
* tie clip
* unclip
* video clip
* wool clip

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)
* → Portuguese: clipe

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

#### Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)
* 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.
** 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:sentenced to have his ears clipped
* To curtail; to cut short.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped, but so.
** 1712 March 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J[onathan] Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], published 1712, →OCLC, page 23:Not only the ſeveral Towns and Countries 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.
* (dialectal, informal) 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.
* (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.
* (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
** 2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.
* (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
* (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
    The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
    Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
    Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!
* (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
    Synonym: whack
** 2021, Peter McKenna, 10:49 from the start, in Kin, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Michael Kinsella (Charlie Cox):It was after they tried to clip me at the cafe.
* (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
* (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
* To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
    I clipped the moment they beat the world record live on stream.
* (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.

##### Derived terms

* beclip
* clipcock
* clip it
* clipjoint, clip-joint, clip joint
* clipmapping
* clippable
* clippie
* clip someone's wings
* clip the wings of

##### Translations
#### Noun

clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)
* Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
    Synonyms: cutting, snippet; see also Thesaurus:piece
** 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 161:Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats.
** The product of a single shearing of sheep.
** A season's crop of wool.
** A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
    Synonym: video clip
    The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.
    The 100th episode of Seinfeld consisted of clips from previous episodes.
** A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
    Synonyms: audio clip, sound bite, sound clip
** A newspaper clipping.
* An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
    I went into the salon to get a clip.
* (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
    Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!
* (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
    Give him a clip round the ear!

##### Derived terms

* clipbook
* clippock
* clipsheet
* clip show
* microclip
* subclip
* vidclip

##### Translations
#### References

* Frank Graham, editor (1987), “CLIP”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
* National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.

### Anagrams

* ILPC

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈklip]

### Noun

clip m (plural clips)
* paper clip
* hairclip

### Further reading

* “clip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “clip”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klip/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

clip m (plural clips)
* music video
* clip-on (earring)

#### Derived terms

* vidéoclip

### Further reading

* “clip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Irish
### Etymology

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### Verb

clip (present analytic clipeann, future analytic clipfidh, verbal noun clipeadh, past participle clipthe)
* (transitive) prick; tease, torment
* (transitive) tire, wear, out

#### Conjugation

| verbal noun | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh | clipeadh |
| past participle | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe | clipthe |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | clipim | clipeann tú; clipir$^†$ | clipeann sé, sí | clipimid | clipeann sibh | clipeann siad; clipid$^†$ | a chlipeann; a chlipeas / a gclipeann* | cliptear |
| past | chlip mé; chlipeas | chlip tú; chlipis | chlip sé, sí | chlipeamar; chlip muid | chlip sibh; chlipeabhair | chlip siad; chlipeadar | a chlip / ar chlip* | clipeadh |
| past habitual | chlipinn / gclipinn‡‡ | chlipteá / gclipteá‡‡ | chlipeadh sé, sí / gclipeadh sé, sí‡‡ | chlipimis; chlipeadh muid / gclipimis‡‡; gclipeadh muid‡‡ | chlipeadh sibh / gclipeadh sibh‡‡ | chlipidís; chlipeadh siad / gclipidís‡‡; gclipeadh siad‡‡ | a chlipeadh / a gclipeadh* | chliptí / gcliptí‡‡ |
| future | clipfidh mé; clipfead | clipfidh tú; clipfir$^†$ | clipfidh sé, sí | clipfimid; clipfidh muid | clipfidh sibh | clipfidh siad; clipfid$^†$ | a chlipfidh; a chlipfeas / a gclipfidh* | clipfear |
| conditional | chlipfinn / gclipfinn‡‡ | chlipfeá / gclipfeá‡‡ | chlipfeadh sé, sí / gclipfeadh sé, sí‡‡ | chlipfimis; chlipfeadh muid / gclipfimis‡‡; gclipfeadh muid‡‡ | chlipfeadh sibh / gclipfeadh sibh‡‡ | chlipfidís; chlipfeadh siad / gclipfidís‡‡; gclipfeadh siad‡‡ | a chlipfeadh / a gclipfeadh* | chlipfí / gclipfí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go gclipe mé; go gclipead$^†$ | go gclipe tú; go gclipir$^†$ | go gclipe sé, sí | go gclipimid; go gclipe muid | go gclipe sibh | go gclipe siad; go gclipid$^†$ | — | go gcliptear |
| past | dá gclipinn | dá gclipteá | dá gclipeadh sé, sí | dá gclipimis; dá gclipeadh muid | dá gclipeadh sibh | dá gclipidís; dá gclipeadh siad | — | dá gcliptí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | clipim | clip | clipeadh sé, sí | clipimis | clipigí; clipidh$^†$ | clipidís | — | cliptear |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

#### Derived terms

* clipire m (“teaser, tormentor”)
* cliptheach (“prickly; teasing, tormenting”, adjective)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “clip”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “clip”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklip/
* Rhymes: -ip
* Hyphenation: clìp

### Noun

clip m (invariable)
* clip
* paper clip

### References

* ↑ clip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klip/

### Noun

clip n (plural clipuri)
* clip (video)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklip/ [ˈklip]
* Rhymes: -ip
* Syllabification: clip

### Noun

clip m (plural clips)
* paper clip
    Synonym: sujetapapeles
* clip (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)
    pendientes de clip ― clip earrings
* (firearms) clip (frame containing a number of bullets)
    Synonym: fragmento

### Further reading

* “clip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* (humorous) cờ nhíp (mimicking stereotypical Northern shift /l/ > /ɲ/)

### Etymology

From English clip.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [klip̚˧˦], [kəː˨˩ lip̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [klip̚˦˧˥], [kəː˦˩ lip̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [klip̚˦˥], [kəː˨˩ lip̚˦˥]
* Phonetic spelling: clíp, cờ líp

### Noun

clip
* clip (video)