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n (ah, how to describe these…) bit of fancily-coloured paper wrapped much like a lozenge, with twisted ends. A small sort of explosive device is put inside a cracker so that when two people pull at alternate ends, the whole thing comes apart with a snapping noise and — ah, the joy — a small piece of trinket crap falls out. This will be something like an ineffectual miniature sewing kit, a set of blunt nail clippers or one of these mysterious “get the bits of metal apart” puzzles, which will cause some degree of interest from the surrounding family until someone realises it’s very easy to get them apart because it was made in China and came out of the factory bent. As the name suggests, these are mainly used at Christmas but sometimes pop up at birthday parties and the like.
Clipper is slang for a tout who charges tourists for providing them with the phone number or address of publicly advertising prostitutes.
A practice that was once common in Shanghai, China was to drug sailors and kidnap them for employment as crew on clipper ships.
A very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts, a square rig, a long, low hull, and a sharply raked stem.
Noun. A short haircut using electric clippers.
A haircut using electric clippers.
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A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.
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A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
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One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
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Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
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