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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

clipped

· IPA /klɪpt/
01 adj. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
  1. 1.
    trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
  2. 2.
    staccato; -- contrasted with legato.(music)
  3. 3.
    effectively concise.
Syn. short. — Syn. -- brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate).