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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Connecting clippers with their prospective clients are a number of intermediary websites, where available video jobs are listed.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Yet while some clippers can make good money, social media consultant Lia Haberman cautions that there are very few of them.
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
Polymarket has paid clippers to promote at least 19 videos discussing opportunities to use inside information or other tactics to manipulate markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Some people cut up their old plants with clippers and dug them back into the soil.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
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