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
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He warns that successful clippers must "watch hours and hours of content, and they just live in that world".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Stanfield says that the website connects brands to more than 340,000 clippers from all over the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Why wait for the housekeeper to make that trip to the garden shed for hedge clippers?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Their campaign is aimed at Americans: As of early June, it only paid clippers if at least 60% of their audience was in the U.S., according to instructional materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Nearby, garden tools hung on the wall and lay on a long shelf, clippers in four different sizes, shovels, hoes, stiff metal rakes and long-fingered leaf rakes.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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