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(short): The film was clipped by fifteen minutes for
television. In her rapid-fire way of speaking, she clipped each
word. 3 strike, hit, punch, smack, box, cuff, whack, Colloq
wallop, clout; Slang sock: He was clipped on the jaw and
knocked out. 4 cheat, swindle, bilk, overcharge, Slang rook:
They clipped him out of a week's wages. She was clipped for a
ten per cent 'service fee'.
--n. 5 segment, interval, section, part, portion, extract,
cutting, excerpt, cutting, bit, snippet, scrap, fragment: We
were shown a film clip of the cheese-making process. 6 blow,
cuff, punch, hit, strike, smack, whack, box, Colloq wallop,
clout; Slang sock: She gave him a clip at the side of the head
and he went down. 7 pace, rate, speed: I was riding along at a
good clip when my horse shied and I was thrown off.
clique n. set, coterie, crowd, circle, group: There was the usual
clique from the Sales Department standing round the bar.
cloak n. 1 mantle, cape, robe, wrap, poncho; coat, overcoat: She
pulled her cloak around her in the chill night air. 2 mantle,
concealment, cover, screen, shroud, veil: He stole away under
the cloak of darkness.
--v. 3 conceal, hide, mask, screen, veil, shroud, cover up;
disguise: All of the spies' activities were cloaked in secrecy.
clod n. 1 lump, mass, gob, wad, hunk, chunk; piece of sod or turf;
Colloq glob: A clod of earth was stuck between the spikes of my
golf shoes. 2 idiot, fool, dolt, blockhead, simpleton, dunce,
dope, oaf, Neanderthal, lout, ass, boor, clown, ninny,
ninny-hammer, bumpkin, clodhopper, Slang vegetable, US and
Canadian jerk: He felt a bit of a clod standing there with no
idea which way to go.
clog v. hamper, encumber, impede; obstruct, choke (up), block,
congest, jam: The road was clogged with returning
holiday-makers. A piece of orange peel had clogged the sink
drain.
close v. 1 shut, close up, seal; close off, lock, padlock, secure,
fasten: I closed my eyes. Please close the door behind you. 2
make inaccessible, shut, Chiefly US place off limits: The