: something that is clipped off or out of something else
grass clippings
especially
: an item clipped from a publication
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Do not blow grass clippings or leaves onto sidewalks.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2025
For mosquitoes, that means standing water along with things like grass clippings, weeds, and leaves.
—Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
The work has included periodically surveying participants — mainly nurses and other health professionals who enrolled to support science — and collecting biological samples such as blood, urine, stool, or toenail clippings.
—David Hilzenrath, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
Ball looked to clippings dating from the 1950s and 1970s to explore then-contemporary perceptions of trans people.
—News Desk, Artforum, 9 June 2025
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2025
For mosquitoes, that means standing water along with things like grass clippings, weeds, and leaves.
—Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
The work has included periodically surveying participants — mainly nurses and other health professionals who enrolled to support science — and collecting biological samples such as blood, urine, stool, or toenail clippings.
—David Hilzenrath, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
Ball looked to clippings dating from the 1950s and 1970s to explore then-contemporary perceptions of trans people.
—News Desk, Artforum, 9 June 2025
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“Clipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clipping. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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clipping
noun
clip·ping
ˈklip-iŋ 
: something cut out or off
a newspaper clipping
grass clippings
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