Meanings
present singular third person noclips · participle present noclipping · participle past noclipped · past noclipped
- video gamesTo navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.
- broadlyTo pass through a solid object or otherwise teleport.
If you are not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you will end up in the Backrooms[…]
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Origin
From no clip, possibly chosen originally as a debug code to allow developers to investigate clipping (in the sense of a computer graphics technique to not render unseen objects) or due to a mix up between clipping (in the sense of checking the player remains inside the boundaries of the play area) and collision detection. Perhaps originates from the 1991 game Commander Keen IV: Secret of the Oracle, where using the appropriate cheat code displays a message "No clipping ON".
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noclip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noclip
“noclip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noclip. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noclip,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noclip.
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