clip art

noun

drawings or illustrations available, as in a book, on a CD-ROM, or in an online gallery, for easy insertion into other material.

Origin of clip art

First recorded in 1955–60; so called because the original clip art was clipped or cut out from a printed page, usually in books of illustrations specifically designed for this purpose.

Words Nearby clip art

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How to use clip art in a sentence

Both artists take banal, electronic clip art and render it curiously unsettling.
In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art | Mark Jenkins | March 5, 2021 | Washington Post

British Dictionary definitions for clip art

clip art

noun

a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents

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