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coupon clipper

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noun

  1. a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.

Etymology

Origin of coupon clipper

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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We were kind of a make-do family … Thankfully my mama was an expert coupon clipper.

From Fox News • Dec. 9, 2021

While conveying her philosophy of government cost-cutting, she often tries to connect with fellow women by describing herself as the family coupon clipper who frequents consignment shops for clothes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2012

Do you expect me to think that a coupon clipper could have done that?

From In the Orbit of Saturn by Starzl, Roman Frederick

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