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clip art
noun
: ready-made usually copyright-free illustrations sold in books, as part of a software package, or through a website from which they may be cut and pasted or inserted as artwork
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Riffs and tangents ensue, with Trixie and Katya expanding on the episode’s topic, surrounded by animation, clip art and text that have been added in the edit.
—Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
Each dispatch evokes the handmade feel of the zine era, or the early-two-thousands blog era after that—from the newsletter’s luridly Photoshopped collages, crammed with clip art, to a spastic writing voice that careens down the page in a stream of florid, hypebeast doggerel.
—Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
Shitty clip art?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
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First Known Use
1957, in the meaning defined above
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“Clip art.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clip%20art. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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clip art
noun
: ready-made illustrations sold in books, as software, or through a website from which they may be used as artwork
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