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Clipper (disambiguation)
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A clipper is a fast sailing vessel, generally from the 19th century.
Clipper or clippers may also refer to:
Business
- Clipper Logistics, a British logistics company
- Clipper Teas, branded as "Clipper", a British, fairtrade tea company
- Clipper Windpower, a wind turbine manufacturer
- Clipper (lighter), a brand of lighter
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 (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
- Clipper, Arkansas, United States, see Miller County, Arkansas#Unincorporated communities
- Clipper, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Clipper Mountains, Mojave Desert, California, United States
- Clipper Valley, Mojave Desert, California, United States
Sports
- Baltimore Clippers, a minor league professional ice hockey team
- Los Angeles Clippers, a professional NBA basketball team
- Columbus Clippers, a minor league baseball franchise
Transportation
Air
- Boeing 314 Clipper, "Yankee Clipper", a Pan Am and BOAC (British Airways) flying boat
- Martin M-130, "Philippine, China, or Hawaii Clipper", a Pan Am 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
- Pan Am Clipper, a callsign for Pan American World Airways
- 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
Automobiles
- Clipper (automobile), an American automobile make (1956 model year)
- Clipper (steam automobile), built in Michigan in 1902
- 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)
Maritime
- SS Milwaukee Clipper, a retired steel-hulled auto and train ferry also known as SS Clipper
- Clipper Group, an international shipping company founded in 1991
- Clipper Navigation, a private company which operates ferries etc. in the Seattle–Vancouver area
- Clipper route, a route for sailing vessels trading between Europe and Australasia, and for modern circumnavigations
- Clipper, a type of cruising yacht, a masthead cutter, used in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
Spacecraft
- Delta Clipper, a reusable space vehicle
- Europa Clipper, a mission concept under study by NASA that would conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa
- Kliper or Clipper, a space vehicle developed by the Russian Roskosmos in cooperation with the ESA
- Yankee Clipper, the Apollo Command/Service Module for Apollo 12
Other uses
- Clipper (nickname), a list of people
- Alberta clipper, a fast-moving weather system
- The Clipper, a newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from 1893 to 1909
- New York Clipper, a newspaper from 1853 to 1924
- Hair clipper, used to cut hair
- Hedge clipper, a gardening tool
- Nail clipper, used to cut fingernails
- Operation Clipper, 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