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say it: klipt
clipped is an adjective meaning "cut or trimmed by clipping". It is pronounced /ˈklɪpt/ — klipt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
cut or trimmed by clipping
“a handsome man with a clipped moustache”
“clipped hedges”
“close-clipped lawns”
“a clipped poodle”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clipped come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.