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clipboard

[ klip-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. a small board having at the top a clip for holding papers and serving as a portable writing surface.


clipboard

/ ˈklɪpˌbɔːd /

noun

  1. a portable writing board with a spring clip at the top for holding paper
  2. a temporary storage area in desktop publishing where text or graphics are held after the cut command or the copy command
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clipboard1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; clip 2 + board
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Example Sentences

Most voters, she went on, aren’t wielding a clipboard and checking off issue boxes.

“I honestly have no idea,” a worker with a clipboard and a walkie-talkie said when asked what they were shooting.

Misinformation isn’t the only obstacle: As Diaz and her co-worker Ashley Jackson rounded the neighborhood one Wednesday, clipboards in hand, they faced locked gates and growling dogs.

I literally went to a place after school where they wore white coats and held clipboards and watched me struggle through reading on these machines that would isolate word after word.

She asked for more details and told the man she was a judge — at which point he yanked the clipboard away, she said, and asked: “Am I going to get in trouble?”

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