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clippers
/ ˈklɪps, ˈklɪpəz /
plural noun
a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
a hairdresser's tool, operated either by hand or electrically, with one fixed and one reciprocating set of teeth for cutting short hair
Example Sentences
On 29 April 1989, he broke into the house of a next door neighbour wearing a nylon stocking over his face, armed with a knife and hedge clippers, the court heard.
Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.
At his new prison, inmates can buy their own razors and nail clippers from the canteen.
He is meticulously cutting a member of staff's hair with a pair of clippers, and says the good time credit scheme has made him feel positive about his time in prison.
I have nothing but raves about these small but sturdy clippers.
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