clippers
Britishplural noun
-
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
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
And you learned that thanks to the clippers.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
She said he had a naturally hairy upper body - and in the summer months would shave his chest, using clippers and a wet razor.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
As Carlos told it, his brother took the clippers, began to buzz, and in the harrowing tradition of at-home haircuts gone amok, somewhere along the way…
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 8, 2025
CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter wrote on Monday that video clippers have become “some of the most powerful people in this year’s election cycle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
"I want a Kwanzaa sweater with a pair of clippers on it. Got me?"
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
