clip vs popper

clip

noun
  • A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. 

  • A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading. 

  • A newspaper clipping. 

  • A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video 

  • A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak. 

  • An act of clipping, such as a haircut. 

  • The product of a single shearing of sheep. 

  • The condition of something, its state. 

  • A removable magazine of a firearm. 

  • A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear) 

  • Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. 

  • An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace. 

  • A season's crop of wool. 

verb
  • To curtail; to cut short. 

  • To grip tightly. 

  • To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier). 

  • To strike with the hand. 

  • to grab or take stealthily 

  • To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value. 

  • To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc. 

  • To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard. 

  • To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it. 

  • To hit or strike, especially in passing. 

  • To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play. 

  • To fasten with a clip. 

  • To cheat, swindle, or fleece. 

popper

noun
  • A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched. 

  • A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn. 

  • Synonym of juice box 

  • A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. 

  • A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño. 

  • Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener. 

  • Amyl nitrate. 

  • One who or that which pops. 

  • A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons. 

  • A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex. 

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