clippingnoun
uk/ˈklɪp.ɪŋ/us/ˈklɪp.ɪŋ/[ C usually plural ] a piece that has been cut off something:
grass/nail clippings
[ C ] an article cut from a newspaper:
A friend sent me a newspaper clipping about someone we were at school with.
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- filing
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
- slip
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