clippers

/ ˈklɪps; ˈklɪpəz /

plural noun

1. a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
2. 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

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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