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Synonyms and Antonyms of clips
- an unexpectedly low branch dealt him a clip to the head
bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses [British], fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups [dialect], lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops (also whaps)
counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercuts
crunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOs
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashings
Synonyms and Antonyms of clips
- a mother who's sad to see her little boy's curls clipped for the first time
- the pitch clipped the batter's helmet with enough force to knock it clean off his head
bangs, bashes, bats, belts, biffs, bludgeons, bobs, bonks, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clobbers, clocks, clouts, cracks, hammers, hits, knocks, nails, pastes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slogs, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, strikes, swats, swipes, tags, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whacks, whales, zaps
batters, beats, buffets, bungs, chops, cuffs, drubs, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), licks, mangles, mauls, pelts, peppers, pommels, pummels, roughs
bumps, butts, jabs, jostles, kicks, knees, pokes, prods, pushes, shoves, stamps
bowls (down or over), creams, decks, dumps [slang], fells, floors, knocks down, levels
rabbit-punches, sucker punches
canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, flogs, lashes, saps, slashes, sledgehammers, sledges, spears, stabs, switches, thrashes, whips
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