Meaning of clip it | Babel Free
Definitions
To move swiftly.
archaic, idiomatic
Examples
“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.”
“That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.”
“The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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