verb

• (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  ""As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ..."
• (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

noun

• (obsolete) An embrace.
  "But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]"
• (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
• (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
• (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

verb

• (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
  "I’ll clip ye round the lugs!"
• (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
• (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  "The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks."
• (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

noun

• Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
  "Early [teddy] bears were made of the clip of angora goats."
• (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
  "Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!"
• (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
  "Give him a clip round the ear!"