👉 In computer programming, a "paperclip" is a function or method that acts as a placeholder for something. It's typically used to represent a temporary variable that can be assigned values, but it also has some functionality of its own. For example, if you have an array named `myArray` and you want to access an element using the paperclip: ``` for (int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) { // Some code } ```