| clipped | (adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds | - |
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| (adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping | - |
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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| flippant | (adjective) showing inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-minded |
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| flippantly | (adverb) in a flippant manner | Synonyms: airily |
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| flipper | (noun) the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) | Synonyms: fin |
| lipped | (adjective) having a lip or lips | - |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| philippic | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, tirade |
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| slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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| (noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
| (noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
| slipper | (noun) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors | Synonyms: carpet slipper |
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| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slider |
| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| slipperiness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slip |
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| (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness |
| slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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| tightlipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive |
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| unclipped | (adjective) not clipped | - |
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| unlipped | (adjective) without a lip or lips | Synonyms: lipless |
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