nip

Plural: nips

Noun

• a small drink of liquor
• (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
• the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
• the property of being moderately cold
• a tart spicy quality
• a small sharp bite or snip
• A playful bite.
• A pinch with the nails or teeth.
• Briskly cold weather.
• A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
• A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
• A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
• A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
• A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
• A short turn in a rope.
• The place of intersection where one roll touches another
• A pickpocket.
• A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
• A nipple, usually of a woman.
• A hamburger.

Verb

Verb Forms: nipped, nipping, nips

• To pinch, bite lightly, or cut off sharply.
• squeeze tightly between the fingers
• give a small sharp bite to
  • "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"
• sever or remove by pinching or snipping
  • "nip off the flowers"
• To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
• To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
• To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
• To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
• To annoy, as by nipping.
• To taunt.
• To squeeze or pinch.
• To steal; especially to cut a purse.
• To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
• To have erect nipples.
• To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

Examples

• Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?
• He had a nip of whiskey.
• He tried to nip his opponent’s chances by blocking the prime scoring squares.
• I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
• the nip of masses of ice
• The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
• There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
• Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?

Synonyms

chilliness, clip, coolness, flavor, flavour, Jap, nip off, pinch, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, shot, smack, snip, snip off, squeeze, tang, tanginess, tweet, twinge, twitch, zest, a little of the creature, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, cutpurse, dip, dipper, dram, drink, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, foist, footpad, gaffle, gilravage, gonoph, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, kipe, knock off, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nibble, nick, nip, nipper, own, peculate, pickpocket, pickpocketer, pickpurse, pilfer, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, relieve, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, slug, snag, snatch, snifter, sniggle, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, tot, walk off with

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