Clipped [verb]

"I clipped it from last night's San Francisco Bulletin," the latter explained quietly.

He hesitated, and a wave of dark colour flooded his face up to the roots of his close-clipped hair.

Only the upper part is shaved, or clipped to the skin, the long winter coat being left on the legs and half-way up the body.

I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.

He must have slipped behind a ragged old yew which had once been clipped and trimmed to look like a chess-king.

When Mary Belle was sold it was stipulated by the buyer that she was to be clipped before being delivered.

Consequently we have two green front doors exactly alike, and each approached by a short brick path edged with clipped box.

Jim suddenly drew his right arm from behind his back and clipped him sharply over the head with a bottle.

I made a couple of passes at him and he hauled off and clipped me with a bottle—a champagne bottle.

He had neither the close-clipped moustache nor the gleaming top boots.