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
As Carlos told it, his brother took the clippers, began to buzz, and in the harrowing tradition of at-home haircuts gone amok, somewhere along the way…
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 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
In Lee Chong’s where he went to get beer he met Dora who was there to buy a pair of nail clippers.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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