when do you cut/clip your DIs?

yeah weird question, people edit using their daw, clipping? not so much, unless i've missed something major.
as to when you would cut/edit DI's? when they aren't as tight as you'd like them to be
 
NEVER CLIP! EVER!

I have on occasion limited my DI tracks when reamping because the guitarist hasn't dug in enough during tracking, but I never clip my DI tracks when recording.
 
have i missed anything? isn't clipping reffers to when the signal teoretically goes over 0db in digital recording which is something which should never ever happen?
how the hell did clipping become a verb?
 
Since he said "cut/clipping" in the title.. I think he's referring to guitar editing... but I'm not really sure...

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