clip art
noun
: ready-made usually copyright-free illustrations sold in books, as part of a software package, or through a website from which they may be cut and pasted or inserted as artwork
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This is one of the problems most frequently faced by crypto tenants, especially if the N.F.T. in question is just clip art of a rock or an emoji portrait of Billie Eilish. 
Devorah Blachor, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022 The strip's signature six panels are the same every time, consisting of simple dinosaur clip art that North found on a CD; only the text changes. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022 Public domain images are photos or clip art that is available for personal and commercial use free of charge. Lisa Kim, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 Opening the app provides a somewhat cluttered UI that shows each device in a gallery with clip art-like images for visual identification of your items. Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021 Perhaps Sylvester and Coley had to fill so much time because Parker and Henson had to wait for their lists to spit out of their color inkjet printers, and someone put too much clip art on the files? Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021 But Tomorrow added a visual wink with characters that resembled stylish Cold War clip art — the kind of unflappable talking heads who could make wild science fiction sound coolly plausible. Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020 If that wasn't enough excitement, Scott's website is also selling 24 t-shirts with McDonald's clip art straight out of the early 2000s, including a shirt that honors the $1 McDonald's apple pie. Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020 Other signs in the shape of red hearts were posted nearby along with clip art images of doctors and nurses. Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2020 See More
Devorah Blachor, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022 The strip's signature six panels are the same every time, consisting of simple dinosaur clip art that North found on a CD; only the text changes. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022 Public domain images are photos or clip art that is available for personal and commercial use free of charge. Lisa Kim, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 Opening the app provides a somewhat cluttered UI that shows each device in a gallery with clip art-like images for visual identification of your items. Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021 Perhaps Sylvester and Coley had to fill so much time because Parker and Henson had to wait for their lists to spit out of their color inkjet printers, and someone put too much clip art on the files? Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021 But Tomorrow added a visual wink with characters that resembled stylish Cold War clip art — the kind of unflappable talking heads who could make wild science fiction sound coolly plausible. Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020 If that wasn't enough excitement, Scott's website is also selling 24 t-shirts with McDonald's clip art straight out of the early 2000s, including a shirt that honors the $1 McDonald's apple pie. Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020 Other signs in the shape of red hearts were posted nearby along with clip art images of doctors and nurses. Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1957, in the meaning defined above