clipper A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century. Clippers were generally narrow for their len ...

is a type of fast sailing vessel, generally from the 19th century. Clipper or clippers may also refer to:

Business

Clipper Logistics Clipper Logistics plc is a retail logistics company based in Leeds which serves retailers selling fashion, tobacco, alcohol and other high-value goods in the UK and Europe. It has 47 sites across Europe. The company was listed on the London S ...

, a British logistics company * Clipper Teas, branded as "Clipper", a British fairtrade tea company *

Clipper Windpower Clipper Windpower is a wind turbine manufacturing company founded in 2001 by James G.P. Dehlsen.Clipper (lighter) Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A. since 1959. The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona, with others manufactured in Chennai and Shanghai. Clipper has a wide ...

, a brand of cigarette lighter

Computing and electronics

Clipper (programming language) Clipper is an xBase compiler that implements a variant of the ''xBase'' computer programming language. It is used to create or extend software programs that originally ran usually on DOS. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming langu ...

, a programming language for dBase III *

Clipper (electronics) In electronics, a clipper is a circuit designed to prevent a signal from exceeding a predetermined reference voltage level. A clipper does not distort the remaining part of the applied waveform. Clipping circuits are used to select, for purpos ...

, a device that restricts the output of an alternating current circuit * Clipper (video game), a 1982 video game written by John S. Bayes * 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

Places in the United States

* Clipper, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in

Miller County, Arkansas Miller County is a County (United States), county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 42,600. The county seat is Texarkana, Arkansas, Texarkana. ...

* Clipper, Washington, an unincorporated community * Clipper Mountains, Mojave Desert, California * Clipper Valley, Mojave Desert, California

Sports

Los Angeles Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The ...

, a National Basketball Association (NBA) team *

San Diego Clippers (NBA G League) The San Diego Clippers are a professional basketball team based in San Diego County, California, that competes in the NBA G League. The team plays its home games at Frontwave Arena. The Clippers began play in the 2017–18 NBA G League season, 20 ...

, an NBA G League team *

Columbus Clippers The Columbus Clippers are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. They are located in Columbus, Ohio, and are named for speedy Merchant ship, merch ...

, a minor league baseball franchise *

Baltimore Clippers The Baltimore Clippers were a minor league professional ice hockey team from in Baltimore, Maryland, playing in the Baltimore Civic Center. The Clippers were members of the American Hockey League from 1962 to 1976, and then played one season i ...

, a minor league ice hockey team

Transportation

Air

Boeing 314 Clipper The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. For its wing, Boeing re-used the design fro ...

, a Pan Am and BOAC (British Airways) flying boat *

Boeing C-40 Clipper The Boeing C-40 Clipper is a military version of the Boeing 737 Next Generation used to transport cargo and passengers. It is used by the United States Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The Navy C-40A variant is named "Clipper", whereas the ...

, a military version of the Boeing 737-700C airline transport * Cessna 303 Clipper, the original model of the

Cessna T303 Crusader The Cessna T303 Crusader is an American six-place light twin-engined aircraft built by Cessna Aircraft Company. Production ceased in 1986. Design and development The original Cessna 303 Clipper was first flown on February 14, 1978;Taylor 198 ...

light aircraft *

Pan Am Clipper Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for ...

, a callsign for Pan American World Airways * Piper PA-16 Clipper, a small aircraft * Raj Hamsa Clipper, an Indian ultralight trike design *

Spartan Clipper The Spartan Clipper was a British light touring aeroplane of the 1930s. It was a single-engine, two-seat, low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Development H.E. Broadsmith designed the Clipper as a two-seater; he employed the ...

, a British 1930s light touring aeroplane * Worldwide Ultralite Clipper, ultralight aircraft

Land

Clipper (steam automobile) Clipper and Michigan were the name of an early steam car built in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1901 and 1902. History The first car designed by Byron Carter, Byron C. Carter and placed on the market was the Michigan steam car. Occasionally called ...

, built in Michigan in 1902 *

Allard Clipper Allard, better known for light sports cars, produced a pilot run of around twenty fibreglass-bodied three-wheeled Clipper microcars in 1953–54. The rear-mounted Villiers 24B single-cylinder two-stroke motorcycle engine is connected by tripl ...

, a microcar produced in London in 1953 and 1954 *

Nissan Clipper The Nissan Clipper is an automobile nameplate by Nissan that has been used for two separate commercial vehicle ranges of ''kei'' trucks in Japan. Originally, this was just a rebadged version of Prince's "Clipper" light/medium duty commercial ve ...

, two ranges of commercial vehicle *

Packard Clipper The Packard Clipper is an Car, automobile series built by the Packard Motor Car Company (and by the later Studebaker-Packard Corporation) for model years 1941–1942, 1946–1947, and 1953–1957. It was named for a type of sailing ship, called a ...

, a 1940s/50s American automobile, and a stand-alone marque *

Trident Clipper Trident Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer based originally in Woodbridge, then in Ipswich, Suffolk between 1966 and 1974. The company produced a small series of sports cars with different engines from 1967 to 1977 and was later re-establis ...

, a British sports car (1966-1974)

Water

* , a retired steel-hulled auto and train ferry also known as SS ''Clipper'' *

Clipper Group Clipper Group is an international shipping company, founded in 1991 by Torben Gülnar Jensen, after a split of Armada Shipping A/S, which was founded in 1972 together with Jørgen Dannesboe. Primary focus is on bulk, especially within the handys ...

, an international shipping company founded in 1991 *

Clipper Navigation Clipper Navigation, Inc., is an American ferry operator and subsidiary of Förde Reederei Seetouristik based in Seattle, Washington. They provide multiple transportation and vacation packages—many of which are offered under the name Clipper Vac ...

, a private company which operates ferries etc. in the Seattle–Vancouver area * Clipper, a type of cruising yacht, a masthead cutter, used in the

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial sailing race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe in 11 specially designed identical yachts owned by Clipper Ventures. Professional skippers ...

Space

* Delta Clipper, a reusable space vehicle *

Europa Clipper Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa (moon), Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. The spacecraft used a gravity assist from Mar ...

, a planned NASA mission that will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa *

Kliper Kliper (Клипер, English: Clipper) was an early-2000s proposed partially- reusable (excluding orbital section and thermal protection shield) crewed spacecraft concept by RSC Energia. Due to a lack of funding from the European Space Agency ...

or Clipper, a space vehicle developed by the Russian Roskosmos in cooperation with the ESA

Other uses

* Clipper (nickname), a list of people *

Alberta clipper An Alberta clipper, also known as an Alberta low, Alberta cyclone, Alberta lee cyclone, Canadian clipper, or simply clipper, is a fast-moving low-pressure system that originates in or near the Canadian province of Alberta just east of the Rocky ...

, a fast-moving weather system * ''

The Clipper ''The Clipper'' was a weekly labor-orientated newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from 8 April 1893 until 25 December 1909, before its merger with the '' Daily Post'' in 1910. History The newspaper was founded by James Paton, proprietor ...

'', a newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from 1893 to 1909 * ''

New York Clipper The ''New York Clipper'', also known as ''The Clipper'', was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924. It covered many topics, including circuses, dance, music, the Outdoor recreation, outdoors, sports, and ...

'', a newspaper from 1853 to 1924 *

Hair clipper A hair clipper, often individually called the apparent '' plurale tantum'' hair clippers (in a similar way to ''scissors''), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair. Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors, but are distinct f ...

, used to cut hair * Hedge clipper, a gardening tool *

Nail clipper A nail clipper (also called nail clippers, a nail trimmer, a nail cutter or nipper type) is a hand tool used to trim fingernails, toenails and hangnails. Design Nail clippers are usually made of stainless steel but can also be made of plastic ...

, used to cut fingernails *

Operation Clipper During the World War II, Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps (United Kingdom), XXX Corps (which included the American 84th Division (United States), 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenk ...

, a World War II offensive in western Germany * Clipper barb, an African freshwater fish * Clipper butterflies, the genus ''Parthenos'' and in particular the species ''Parthenos sylvia'' * Clipper card, a smart card for paying transit fares in the San Francisco Bay Area