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clip art
noun
- drawings or illustrations available, as in a book, on a CD-ROM, or in an online gallery, for easy insertion into other material.
clip art
noun
- a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clip art1
First recorded in 1955–60; so called because the original clip art was clipped or cut out from a printed page, usually in books of illustrations specifically designed for this purpose.
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Example Sentences
Wiener, the author, said it was his “strong speculation” that the artwork was made using computer clip art.
From Los Angeles Times
Another time the coach halted a PowerPoint presentation when a marketing slide featured clip art of a football play diagram.
From Washington Post
Headshots of known terrorists were sprinkled in like clip art.
From Los Angeles Times
Both artists take banal, electronic clip art and render it curiously unsettling.
From Washington Post
But Tomorrow added a visual wink with characters that resembled stylish Cold War clip art — the kind of unflappable talking heads who could make wild science fiction sound coolly plausible.
From Washington Post
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