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clip
verb- to steal something; to swindle someone; to win something, especially through cheating US, 1922
- The only time the board of aldermen ever had a meeting was when enough of the waiters ganged up around the bar to talk about the laines they clipped, and the police chief was too busy mixing drinks to bust himself under the prohibition act. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 66, 1946
- Generally a runner made plenty for himself, taking a chance that the dough he clipped wasn’t on the number that pulled in the shekels. — Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 46, 1947
- Of course, about price–how much was he going to clip you? — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 168, 1954
- What with the frigging cop butting in, I have to go all the way down to Seventh Street to clip a bag of coal[.] — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 50, 1955
- I just clip a buck here and a buck there. It mounts up, but nobody gets hurt. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 72, 1963
- Immediately Skippere had a plan to clip the score[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 113, 1963
- I clipped a dance moll for a swab, it paid a trey or a fin. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 85, 1965
- She began to make more, especially when she learned how to clip a trick as he concentrated on his kicks, or was drunk. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 97, 1968
- Boy, you clipped me for ten grand and the others for at least another five. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 112, 1979
- Let me tell you about clipping. It has many variations. Sometimes it ain’t exactly subtle. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 18, 2001
- to kill someone, especially by gunshot US, 1928
- “We’ve got to clip this guy.” — Robert Daley, Prince of the City, p. 103, 1978
- “You are the only one who can get close enough to her to do it,” his father said. “Zotz her? Clip Irene?” — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 304, 1982
- [S]ick or no fuckin’ sick, you knew people were gonna get clipped. — Casino, 1995
- Hey, guys like Joe Loop get clipped all the time. It’s what they do, man, they get pissed off about something or bored and shoot each other; it’s their fate. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 284, 1999
- to hit someone US, 1855
- And I haven’t had to really clip a young Negro in years. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 144, 1947
▶ clip a steamer
to defecate US- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 61, 2003
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