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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clip \Clip\ (kl[icr]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clipped}
      (kl[icr]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clipping}.] [OE. cluppen,
      clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG.
      kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[df]pa to pinch, squeeze, also
      OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. &
      Icel. klippa.]
      1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
  
                     O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee
                     about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of
                     thyself.                                             --Shak.
  
      2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
            hair; to clip coin.
  
                     Sentenced to have his ears clipped.   --Macaulay.
  
      3. To curtail; to cut short.
  
                     All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor
                     clipped, but so.                                 --Shak.
  
                     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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