clip

clip
   1. to swindle or rob
   The association is with the shearing or the venerable practice of cutting the edges off silver coins. Now often it is used of picking pockets. A clip artist is a swindler and a clip joint a night club or similar establishment where customers are overcharged and otherwise cheated:
    I took Celia and Victor Farris to dinner at one lush clipjoint and raised my voice in outrage at the miserable food and service. (Whicker, 1982)
   2. to hit with a bullet
   Literally, to cut or shear, whence to mark as by removing cardboard from a ticket, which is what a clippie used to do on a bus. In America the person clipped is usually killed, but in British use he would only be slightly wounded, without being incapacitated.

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