clip it

verb

To move swiftly.

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Meanings

verbclip it (third-person singular simple present clips it, present participle clipping it, simple past and past participle clipped it)

present singular third person clips it · participle present clipping it · participle past clipped it · past clipped it

  1. archaicidiomaticTo move swiftly.

    The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,

    1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales/Johnny-Cake
    2 more examples

    Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

    1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

    That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.

    1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
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