clipping English

Meaning clipping meaning

What does clipping mean?

clipping

— noun (= cutting) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine he searched through piles of letters and clippings

— noun (= clip, snip) the act of clipping or snipping

— noun (= trim) cutting down to the desired size or shape

Synonyms clipping synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as clipping?

clipping English » English

cutting

clip

trimming

trim

snip

press cutting

shearing

press clipping

newspaper clipping

truncation

tearing off

stylization

stylisation

stump word

snipping

slicing

shortening

shaving

sharp

shaping

scratch

scrap

schnitzel

pruning

piece

paring

limiting

leveling

inset

handicap

haircut

grading

formulation

formation

extract

excerpt

detail

cutting off

cutout

cutlet

cut ridge

cut

clinking

Examples clipping examples

How do I use clipping in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I was in the next stall clipping Duke's toenails.

I was gonna show him a clipping that said I should've been all-American.

You ain't clipping me, you're clipping Nick Brown, the guy I work for.

If you'll look at the clipping, you'll see the hanging's set for next week.

I have the clipping right here with me.

You don't like the initials on a ring, and you connect it all up with a newspaper clipping.

Fred, I know it's supposed to be a secret. but why did you tear out that clipping?

If what that newspaper clipping says is true, you can go back and tell them about it.

Not a hair, nor a fingernail clipping?

With all due respect, Mrs. Kovac. you see that fancy-Dan over there clipping pictures out of the paper?

My dear, I don't think there's time to start clipping roses now.

He sends you a clipping which I don't especially like either.

Shirley, will you get me that clipping, please?

Say, there was a clipping in here.

Show him the clipping.

You don't like the initials on a ring and connect it up with a newspaper clipping.

May I have the clipping?

I'll leave the address with her. If what that newspaper clipping says is true, you can go back and tell them about it.

Three charming lapdogs with no ambition beyond clipping my coupons.

This fellow's not above clipping a person's ear.

Eh, I'm afraid I'm too much a career-girl-type to be interested in romance. By that time, anyway, I'll probably be much more interested in clipping coupons.

For having a newspaper clipping on me?

Well, read 'em a clipping', News.

There's a press clipping about it, up there.

This first clipping is from the Astrologer's Monthly.

That's when we got the newspaper clipping.

This is a clipping from Soviet Encyclopedia.

This first clipping is from the Astrologer's Monthly. Reports an unusual phenomenon.

Yes. Then you'll recollect this other clipping.

I got the clipping' here.

It's a clipping from today's paper.

Tell him how you blinded yourself for Jesus and show him that clipping you not.

The clipping.

Get me that clipping.

The bastard not away with my clipping.

News and current affairs

We also acknowledge that the consequences of an airplane crash are liable to be far more catastrophic than, say, those of a cyclist clipping a curb on his way home from the shops.