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clip it en · VERB
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(archaic, idiomatic) To move swiftly.
That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,
1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales/Johnny-Cake:Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
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