the.com/clippers
The paperclip's tiny, needier cousin that interrupted your Word doc to ruin your life.
means Tools with two blades hinged together for cutting — hair, nails, or hedges, depending on the size you're holding.
from Straightforward agent noun from the verb 'clip,' meaning to cut short — itself from Old Norse 'klippa,' a word that was probably just imitating the snick-snick sound shears make. The tool got named for the job it does, no twist required.
- real name
- Clippit, officially, which nobody ever called it
- retirement year
- killed off by Microsoft in 2007
- secret talent
- inspired genuine rage studies in UX research
- nba homonym
- also a basketball team overshadowed by its own city