Meaning

noun a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

noun an instance or single occasion for some event

noun any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

originFrom Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

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