clipped

clipped
    adj 1: cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a
           clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped
           lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
    2: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class
       accent"
    

Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clipped} (kl[i^]pt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Clipping}.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to
   embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs,
   shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to
   cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
   1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
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            O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee
            about,
            Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
      hair; to clip coin.
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            Sentenced to have his ears clipped.   --Macaulay.
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   3. To curtail; to cut short.
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            All my reports go with the modest truth;
            No more nor clipped, but so.          --Shak.
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            In London they clip their words after one manner
            about the court, another in the city, and a third in
            the suburbs.                          --Swift.
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clipped \clipped\ adj.
   1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
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   2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with {legato}.

   Syn: short.
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   3. effectively concise.

   Syn: brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the
        point(predicate).
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58 Moby Thesaurus words for "clipped":
      Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
      brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious,
      compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
      curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
      epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
      pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
      sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
      snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
      to the point, trimmed, truncated