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Tools, teams, and boats named for one job: making things shorter or faster.
means A word for cutting tools (nail, hair, hedge), a fast old sailing ship, or various sports teams.
from From the verb clip, to cut short — later borrowed by fast ships that seemed to clip along, slicing through the water at record speed.
Tea racesClipper ships raced to deliver fresh tea fastest.
Cutty SarkFamous surviving clipper, now a London museum.
NBA moveThe Clippers relocated San Diego to Los Angeles.