Clip
Clip verb - To make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Star Fox, your ship can sometimes lose its wings when it's damaged, particularly if you fly too close to something big and clip them yourself.
Source: Clip Its Wings - Scooby-Dooby Doors: One clip does this with the cast of One Piece, with Fred and Daphne fly by on a carpet in the background.
Source: Web Video / AMV Hell -
There is a clip from the Swedish movie Kopps where a police officer throws his gun into the air, opens his pants, catches the gun in the open fly, then buckles his belt over the gun.
Source: Phallic Weapon
Cite this Source
Fly and Clip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/fly
Clip & Fly. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/fly>.
Fly or Clip. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clip/fly.
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