clipper

Meaning

Noun

• Anything that clips.
• A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
• Something that moves swiftly; especially:
• The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
• A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
• A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
• Confidence trickster; conman.

Origin

• From Middle Dutch klepper and Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan, from Proto-Germanic *klupjaną.