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clippers

US // (ˈklɪpəz) //

剪子,剪刀,剪报,修剪器

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
    • : a hairdresser's tool, operated either by hand or electrically, with one fixed and one reciprocating set of teeth for cutting short hair

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Examples

  • If you ever put your hands on me again, I'm gonna snip your little nuts off with my toenail clippers!

  • Dried pasta and canned goods are prepared with nothing more than a pair of nail clippers.

  • Of course, this causes the nail clippers to oxidize and the water turns rusty, but it boils.

  • Did you think the world might finally be done with Donald Sterling, the demented, disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner?

  • My estimate that Sterling might charge $1 billion for the Clippers appears to have fallen woefully short.

  • All that the clippers men could see was a sudden, confused struggle, that ended almost before it had begun.

  • Along the rail, hard-bitten as the clippers men were, oaths broke out, and mutterings.

  • The Flying Cloud and the Staffordshire were followed by about forty fast clippers during the great gold-fever of '49.

  • In this case, however, I was somewhat more hopeful, for these Natal clippers were not wholly strange to me.

  • Among the facts which thus present themselves to notice, is one relating to clippers.