early 13c., "clasping, embracing," verbal noun from clip (v.2). As a U.S. football penalty (not in OED), from 1920.
Clipping or Cutting Down from Behind. -- This is to be ruled under unnecessary roughness, and penalized when it is practiced upon "a man obviously out of the play." This "clipping" is a tendency in the game that the committee is watching anxiously and with some fear. ["Colliers," April 10, 1920]
"a cutting," early 14c., verbal noun from clip (v.1). Sense of "a small piece cut off" is from late 15c. Meaning "an article cut from a newspaper" is from 1857.
双语例句
1. I saw an old man out clipping his hedge.
我看见一位老人在外面修剪树篱。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Come in clipping time.
来得恰好.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. Boardman finished in 1hr 43mins, clipping 49 seconds from his own course record.
博德曼完成全程用时1小时43分，把自己的赛道纪录缩短了49秒。
来自柯林斯例句
4. He spent the whole morning clipping the trees.
他用整个上午修剪这些树.
来自辞典例句
5. She looked with appreciative eyes at the powerful young man clipping the hedge.
