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clipping

Definition

  • noun: something (such as an article or a picture) that has been cut out of a newspaper or magazine
  • noun: something that is 'clipped' off or out of something else
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: quotation, snippet, offcut

Examples

  • She's outside 'clipping' [='trimming'] the hedges/bushes.

  • a newspaper/magazine 'clipping'

  • a fingernail 'clipping'

Movie quotes

  • (..) When I came here, you were nothing. I formed you. Who says? Read them a clipping, News. Which one? Any of them. This one here's from Salt Lake Herald. "Butch Cassidy's (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid