clip-fed

[klip-fed]

adjective

1. (of a rifle) loading from a cartridge clip into the magazine.

clip-fed

adjective

1. (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip

Word History and Origins

Origin of clip-fed¹

clip ² + fed ¹

Example Sentences

The Dylans soon wearied of finding hippies in the trees around their home and Dylan became frightened that he might have to use his "clip-fed Winchester blasting rifle" to keep them from his family.

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Another prisoner asked whether the U.S. artillery was belt-fed or clip-fed; fire had poured down on his position so fast that he thought the Americans must have developed automatic cannon of field-gun caliber.

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