coupon clipper

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of coupon clipper¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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

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I need it to be an omniscient coupon clipper and keeper of receipts.

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Are you a bargain hunter, coupon clipper or thrifty shopper?

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But it is now generally understood that the way to keep shoppers in malls is not merely to appeal to their inner coupon clipper.

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Archer Daniels Midland: coupon clipper to the world.

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