clipper

IPA: kɫˈɪpɝ

Anything that clips.
(chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
(informal) An Alberta clipper.
(entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
(historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
(slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
(slang, obsolete) Anything showy or first-rate.
A surname from German.
An unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.

Examples of "clipper" in Sentences

China clippers and the epitome of sail.
The clipper ship may represent the year 1926.
It wasa launched at the height of the clipper boom.
She bought polish, detergent and clipper from the market.
Scott designed the vehicles, and Clipper was the mechanic.
The clipper barb is of commercial interest in the industry.
The blades of the clipper are in the open end of the casing.
One guy acting independently with a nail clipper is a terrorist.
The granddaddy of the compilers was Clipper, from Nantucket Software.
Then I said, “Then what do you think a nail clipper is supposedly for?”
Farley oversaw and was responsible for the flight of the first China Clipper.
The Clipper Mountain Wilderness is found on the northern slopes of the range.
The Boeing clipper is widely regarded at the summit of flying boat technology.
For heaven’s sake, nail clipper is to cut nails and it’s such disgusting to use a personal grooming tool in the public.
There was also the District Nurse, an amazing lady who worked all hours (her father had served before the mast in clipper ships in the last decade of the 19th.
Her mother, Jackiey, the daughter of a market trader, was described in her daughter's autobiography as a petty thief and "clipper" - a woman who pretends to be a prostitute but runs off with the money instead.