| Clipping 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clip. 2. (n.) The act of embracing. 3. (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. 4. (n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings. Thesaurus Entries abbreviation, ana, analects, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, contraction, crasis, crumb, cut, cutting, cuttings, dollop, elision, ellipsis, end, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragment, fragments, gleanings, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, moiety, morsel, paring, particle, piece, pruning, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, syncope, syneresis, tatter, truncation |