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Nip   /nɪp/   Listen
Nip

verb
(past & past part. nipped, less properly nipt; pres. part. nipping)
1.
Squeeze tightly between the fingers.  Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch.  "She squeezed the bottle"
2.
Give a small sharp bite to.
3.
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping.  Synonyms: clip, nip off, snip, snip off.
noun
1.
A small drink of liquor.  Synonym: shot.
2.
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent.  Synonym: Jap.
3.
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.  Synonyms: flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang.
4.
The property of being moderately cold.  Synonyms: chilliness, coolness.
5.
A tart spicy quality.  Synonyms: piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest.
6.
A small sharp bite or snip.  Synonym: pinch.



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"Nip" Quotes from Famous Books



... warrior with apprehension. What if he should bring his 'dare young misthress' and her friend into the atmosphere of stale tobacco after their lawful game? Wilkinson sat down despairingly and coughed. "I feel very like the least little nip," he said faintly, "but it's in my knapsack, and I will not enter that car of foul conspiracy again for all the knapsacks and ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... have a nip on it," Watson said to Witberg, as they left the courtroom; but that outraged person refused to lock arms and amble to the ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London
... far back from the street, and next to it was a deep, vacant lot at the very rear of which Job was aimlessly wandering about, pausing now and then to nip at the tender green blades that were pushing their way up through ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... the way it stands now. Mama is become No. 2; I have dropped from No. 4, and am become No. 5. Some time ago it used to be nip and tuck between me and the cats, but after the cats "developed" I didn't ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... active as cats, trotted, with a tinkle of bells, through the barred sunshine and shadow of the fragrant pine and cork woods. The road, turning inland, climbed steadily, the air growing lighter and fresher as the elevation increased—a nip in it testifying that January was barely yet out. And that nip justified the wearing of certain afore-mentioned myrtle-green, fur-trimmed pelisse, upon which Damaris' minor affections were, at this period, ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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