clippie

Clippie, protect me.

STEVE: I knew Clippie was going to come into this.

Could 'super clippie' save the day?

With the return of the clippie, pick-up time would be dramatically reduced, and so would fuel consumption, air pollution and driver frustration.

The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'mon gerraff fame.

On the Buses (1973, TV; episode: Olive's Divorce, Clippie (uncredited))

She seemed to have only the slightest doubt over which bus to catch, and a quick word with the clippie, who was trying to look like Joan Crawford, soon set her right on that.

An area of Lochgelly was known as the Happy Lands (or Happy Valley) and is referenced in the Scottish folk song 'The Kelty Clippie'.

In 1970, she played Mrs Hall in the movie, and later in 1975, she played the dual part of Marie/the Clippie in the radio adaptation of A Soldier's Farewell.

Dr. Picard's group is working with Microsoft to alter one of its more irksome software features: Clippie, the talking paper clip that first popped up in Microsoft Office 97 to offer technical advice.

Mr. Amory, known to family and friends as Clip or Clippie in his youth, was born on Sept. 2, 1917 in the resort town of Nahant, Mass., and grew up in Boston.

Her mother, who had given up being a "clippie" on the buses when she married, took jobs as a cleaner and lived with Janice in a one-bedroom flat above the doctor's surgery she cleaned, latterly becoming a school dinner lady.