early 13c., "clasping, embracing," verbal noun from clip (v.2). As a U.S. football penalty (not in OED), from 1920.
Clipping or Cutting Down from Behind. -- This is to be ruled under unnecessary roughness, and penalized when it is practiced upon "a man obviously out of the play." This "clipping" is a tendency in the game that the committee is watching anxiously and with some fear. ["Colliers," April 10, 1920]
clipping (n.2)
"a cutting," early 14c., verbal noun from clip (v.1). Sense of "a small piece cut off" is from late 15c. Meaning "an article cut from a newspaper" is from 1857.
雙語例句
1. I saw an old man out clipping his hedge.
我看見一位老人在外面修剪樹籬。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Come in clipping time.
來得恰好.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. Boardman finished in 1hr 43mins, clipping 49 seconds from his own course record.
博德曼完成全程用時1小時43分，把自己的賽道紀(jì)錄縮短了49秒。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He spent the whole morning clipping the trees.
他用整個上午修剪這些樹.
來自辭典例句
5. She looked with appreciative eyes at the powerful young man clipping the hedge.