Cut off by clipping; cut short: having the ends or edges cut off.

adjective. trimmed with clippers.

adjective. staccato; -- contrasted with legato.

adjective. effectively concise.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of clip.

adjective. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.

adjective. With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.

adjective. Circumcised.

adjective. (of speech) having quick short sounds

adjective. cut or trimmed by clipping

"Gita Patel—at least, that was the name on the tag clipped on to her lab coat—set her instruments down and slid around on her wheeled stool to face me as I struggled into a sitting position."

clipped speech  

cut  short  trimmed  

chipped  conscript  crypt  dipped  dripped  

Spartan  abbreviated  abridged  abstracted  aposiopestic  

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