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clip
noun- a rate of speed UK, 1867
- The Metropolitan Police Authority are proceeding at a fair old clip to put in place the changes to their structures that will unleash and build up a series of savings during the coming financial year. — Mayor Ken Livingstone, London Assembly, 19 September 2001
- an occurrence or instance US
- Since then, I been on half a dozen scores–three, four thousand a clip–when I’m pressed to the wall. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 30, 1979
- a blow UK, 1830
- Nothing more daring than allowing them to say “bloody” without getting a clip round the ear. — Guardian, 28 May 2004
- a swindle or other act of dishonest trickery US, 1941
- He felt it expedient to do so each day after he had put a hard clip on some sucker who might be inclined to wake up sober and call for the bluecoats. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 208, 1956
- [G]uys sitting around talking about the clip they’d made. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 43–44, 1990
- a string of bottles containing doses of crack cocaine US
- She could carry two clips down in her panties, another two up top, and the Fury couldn’t do anything unless they pulled her into the precinct for a strip search. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 5, 1992
- a vasectomy US
- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 40, 1993
- in the circus or carnival, a patron US
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 26, 1980
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