What Do You Call a Bunch of Staples?

[BillConnerFASTC]

The clip seems like the container, not the ammunition itself.

 

[egilson1]

So in terms of firearms, clip and magazine get confused all the time. A Clip is a series of rounds connected together that then will get placed into a magazine. This is usually done with what is called a charger.

So if you were to apply this to staples, the group of them all together would indeed be a clip.

 

[bobgaggle]

So in terms of firearms, clip and magazine get confused all the time. A Clip is a series of rounds connected together that then will get placed into a magazine. This is usually done with what is called a charger.

So if you were to apply this to staples, the group of them all together would indeed be a clip.

Well thats interesting, in my experience a clip has been the metal thing that holds the cartridges until they are loaded in the magazine. Thinking of the M1 Garand, where you fire 8 shots and hear that lovely PING as the clip ejects. Or the Mosin Nagant, where the clip never actually enters the magazine but holds 5 rounds so you don't have to load each one by hand. But in the staple's case there is no separate device holding the staples together, just glue. So clip seems like it doesn't work.