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Clipper vs Slipper - What's the difference?

clipper | slipper |

As nouns the difference between clipper and slipper

is that clipper is anything that clips while slipper is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

As an adjective slipper is

slippery.

As a verb slipper is

to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.

clipper

English

Noun

(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)
  • Anything that clips.
  • * 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
  • Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  • Something that moves swiftly; especially:
  • # (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
  • # (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  • (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
  • Derived terms

    * (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipper

    See also

    * Clipper chip

    Anagrams

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    slipper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  • Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
  • Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
  • A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
  • A person who slips.
  • * 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
  • He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
  • * 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:
  • Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.
  • * 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:
  • Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
  • A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
  • A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
  • (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
  • A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
  • "Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
  • The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
  • * 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
  • "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

    Synonyms

    * (low shoe) babouche, pantofle * (low shoe worn indoors) flip-flop, sandal, thong

    Derived terms

    * Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwort

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) slippery
  • O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) To repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
  • *:"One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."
  • Anagrams

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