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動詞

clip it (三人称単数 現在形 clips it, 現在分詞 clipping it, 過去形および過去分詞形 clipped it)

1. (idiomatic, archaic) To move swiftly.
   • 1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: Printed for Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 1064438096, (please specify the stanza number):

     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.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 26, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.

   • 1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales/Johnny-Cake

     The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,