clipping (n.1)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[clipping 词源字典]
early 13c., "clasping, embracing," verbal noun from clip (v.2). As a U.S. football penalty (not in OED), from 1920.
Clipping or Cutting Down from Behind. -- This is to be ruled under unnecessary roughness, and penalized when it is practiced upon "a man obviously out of the play." This "clipping" is a tendency in the game that the committee is watching anxiously and with some fear. ["Colliers," April 10, 1920]
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penalize (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1868, from penal + -ize. Related: Penalized; penalizing.