about clips

In the army we generally said magazine, but the M-16 was a clip or magazine and;


Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: mag�·a�·zine, Pronunciation: 'ma-g&-"zEn, "ma-g&-'

Function: noun, Etymology: Middle French, from Old Proven�§al, from Arabic makhAzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, Date: 1583

1 : a place where goods or supplies are stored : WAREHOUSE

2 : a room in which powder and other explosives are kept in a fort or a ship

3 : the contents of a magazine: as a : an accumulation of munitions of war b : a stock of provisions or goods

â?¦5 : a supply chamber: as a : a holder in or on a gun for cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber


Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: 2clip

Function: noun, Date: 15th century

â?¦2 : a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm


Cambridge Dictionary of American English

magazine (GUN PART)

noun [C]

a part of a gun in which cartridges tubes containing an explosive substance are stored, or a building in which explosives, weapons and supplies are kept. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.


from Cambridge Dictionary of American English


clip (GUN PART)

noun [C]

a container holding bullets and that is put into a gun


So, those poor souls walking in and saying clip, their English teachers can't all be wrong,