Definition of nips Nips
/nɪˈps/ - [nips] -
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Wiktionary 
- nips (Noun)
Plural of nip.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: nips |
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| nip - a tart spicy quality | ||
| piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest | ||
| spicery, spiciness, spice the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | ||
| nip - a small sharp bite or snip | ||
| pinch | ||
| chomp, bite a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" | ||
| snip, clipping, clip a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | ||
| nip - a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey" | ||
| shot | ||
| nip - the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | ||
| relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang | ||
| gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation, taste a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" | ||
| lemon an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | ||
| nip - the property of being moderately cold; "the chilliness of early morning" | ||
| chilliness, coolness | ||
| low temperature, cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" | ||
| nip - (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent | ||
| Jap, Nip | ||
| nipponese, japanese the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese | ||
| argot, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular, jargon, cant a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard | ||
Verb |
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| nip - sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" | ||
| nip off, clip, snip, snip off | ||
| cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting" | ||
| nip - give a small sharp bite to; "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles" | ||
| seize with teeth, bite penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface" | ||
| nip - squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" | ||
| pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, twitch | ||
| grip hold fast or firmly; "He gripped the steering wheel" | ||
| goose give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car" | ||
| tweak pinch or squeeze sharply | ||
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Wiktionary
- nip (Noun)
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor. - nip (Noun)
A nipple, usually of a woman. - nip (Noun)
A playful bite. - nip (Noun)
A pinch with the nails or teeth. - nip (Noun)
Briskly cold weather. - nip (Noun)
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. - nip (Noun)
A small cut, or a cutting off the end. - nip (Noun)
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. - nip (Noun)
A biting sarcasm; a taunt. - nip (Noun)
A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. Low, U. S. - nip (Noun)
The place of intersection where one roll touches another in papermaking. - nip (Noun)
A pickpocket. - nip (Verb)
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. - nip (Verb)
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. - nip (Verb)
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. - nip (Verb)
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. - nip (Verb)
To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- nip (n.)
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram. - nip (v. t.)
To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. - nip (v. t.)
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. - nip (v. t.)
Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. - nip (v. t.)
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. - nip (n.)
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. - nip (n.)
A pinch with the nails or teeth. - nip (n.)
A small cut, or a cutting off the end. - nip (n.)
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. - nip (n.)
A biting sarcasm; a taunt. - nip (n.)
A short turn in a rope.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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nip
nip, n. a sip, esp. of spirits—also Nip′per (U.S.).—v.i. to take a dram.—n. Nip′perkin, a small measure of liquor. [Dut. nippen, to sip.] -
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nip, v.t. to pinch: to press between two surfaces: to cut off the edge: to check the growth or vigour of: to destroy: to bite, sting, satirise:—pr.p. nip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. nipped.—n. a pinch: a seizing or closing in upon: a cutting off the end: a blast: destruction by frost: (min.) a more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum: (naut.) a short turn in a rope, the part of a rope at the place bound by the seizing or caught by jambing.—ns. Nip′-cheese, a stingy fellow: (naut.) the purser's steward; Nip′per, he who, or that which, nips: one of various tools or implements like pincers: one of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs: a chela or great claw, as of a crab: the young bluefish: a boy who attends on navvies: (obs.) a thief: one of the four fore-teeth of a horse: (pl.) small pincers.—v.t. to seize (two ropes) together.—adv. Nip′pingly.—Nip in the bud, to cut off in the earliest stage. [From root of knife; Dut. knijpen, Ger. kneipen, to pinch.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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A short turn in a rope. Also, a fishing term for a bite. In Arctic parlance, a nip is when two floes in motion crush by their opposite edges a vessel unhappily entrapped. Also, the parts of a rope at the place bound by the seizing, or caught by jambing. Also, Nip in the hawse; hence "freshen the nip," by veering a few feet of the service into the hawse.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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Something bracing from without or within When felt in the air, it's a frost. When found in a glass, a life saver.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse. -
nip
A half pint, a nip of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small vessel.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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nip
Nip it in the bud.
