clippers
Britishplural noun
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a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
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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
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And you learned that thanks to the clippers.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Transporting passengers to the gold fields of California and racing to get the first spring tea from China to New York and London drove the rise of extreme clippers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.
From BBC • May 25, 2025
In another photo, the fake-bald Stamos is holding hair clippers to Coulier's bald head.
From Salon • Nov. 19, 2024
Hundreds of clippers, schooners, sloops, barges, ferries, and steamboats raised and lowered their flags to honor the Arctic heroes.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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