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A clipper is a 19th-century fast sailing ship with three masts and a square rig.
Clipper may also refer to:
In transportation
Automobiles
- Clipper (steam automobile), built in Michigan in 1902
- Clipper (automobile), an American automobile make (1956 model year)
- Allard Clipper, a microcar produced in London in 1953 and 1954
- Nissan Clipper, two ranges of commercial vehicle
- Packard Clipper, an American automobile model (1941-1947; 1953-1955; 1957)
- Trident Clipper, a British sports car (1966-1974)
Airplanes
- Boeing 314 Clipper, a flying boat
- Boeing C-40 Clipper, a military version of the Boeing 737-700C airline transport
- Cessna 303 Clipper, the original model of the Cessna T303 Crusader light aircraft
- Piper PA-16 Clipper, a small aircraft
- Raj Hamsa Clipper, an Indian ultralight trike design
- Spartan Clipper, a British light touring aeroplane of the 1930s
- Worldwide Ultralite Clipper, ultralight aircraft
Maritime
- Clipper, the type of cruising yacht, a masthead cutter, used in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
- Clipper Group, an international shipping company founded in 1991
- Clipper Navigation, a private company which operates ferries etc. in the Seattle–Vancouver area
- Milwaukee Clipper, a retired steel hulled auto and train ferry also known as the SS Clipper
Spacecraft
- Delta Clipper, a reusable space vehicle
- Kliper (sometimes Clipper), a space vehicle developed by the Russian Roskosmos in cooperation with the ESA
- Europa Clipper, a mission concept under study by NASA that would conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa
Other
- Clipper card, smart card for paying transit fares in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Pan Am Clipper, callsign for Pan American World Airways
In computing and electronics
- Clipper (programming language), a programming language for dBase III
- Clipper (electronics), a device that restricts the output of an alternating current circuit
- Clipper chip, a symmetric encryption integrated circuit developed by the NSA, defunct by 1996, that had a built-in backdoor
- Clipper architecture, 32-bit RISC-like computing architecture
In geography
- Clipper, Washington, an unincorporated community
- Clipper Mountains, Mojave Desert, California
- Clipper Valley, Mojave Desert, California
In sports
- LA Clippers, a professional NBA basketball team
- Columbus Clippers, a minor league baseball franchise
- Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, a yacht race crewed by paying amateur sailors
Other
- Clipper (nickname), a list of people
- Clipper butterflies, the genus Parthenos and in particular the species Parthenos sylvia
- Clipper (lighter), a type of lighter
- Hedge clipper, a gardening tool
- Nail clipper, used to cut fingernails
- Hair clipper, used to cut hair
- Clipper Windpower, a wind turbine manufacturer
- New York Clipper, a newspaper from 1853 to 1924
- The Clipper, a newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from 1893 to 1909
- Operation Clipper, a World War II offensive in western Germany
See also
- Yankee Clipper (disambiguation)
- Alberta clipper, a storm system common to North America
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