clippers
clips (ˈklɪps)
/ (ˈklɪpəz) /
a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
a hairdresser's tool, operated either by hand or electrically, with one fixed and one reciprocating set of teeth for cutting short hair
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How to use clippers in a sentence
If you ever put your hands on me again, I'm gonna snip your little nuts off with my toenail clippers!
Jenny Lewis on 'The Voyager,' the End of Rilo Kiley, and High School Classmate Angelina Jolie | Marlow Stern | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDried pasta and canned goods are prepared with nothing more than a pair of nail clippers.
Tales of a Jailhouse Gourmet: How I learned to Cook in Prison | Daniel Genis | June 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, this causes the nail clippers to oxidize and the water turns rusty, but it boils.
Tales of a Jailhouse Gourmet: How I learned to Cook in Prison | Daniel Genis | June 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDid you think the world might finally be done with Donald Sterling, the demented, disgraced Los Angeles clippers owner?
My estimate that Sterling might charge $1 billion for the clippers appears to have fallen woefully short.
Does Donald Sterling Have Dementia? And Does That Make Him Any Less of a Racist? | Robert Silverman | May 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
All that the clippers men could see was a sudden, confused struggle, that ended almost before it had begun.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandAlong the rail, hard-bitten as the clippers men were, oaths broke out, and mutterings.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandThe Flying Cloud and the Staffordshire were followed by about forty fast clippers during the great gold-fever of '49.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis TrainIn this case, however, I was somewhat more hopeful, for these Natal clippers were not wholly strange to me.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" | Harry CollingwoodAmong the facts which thus present themselves to notice, is one relating to clippers.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 | Various
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