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Nips

noun
Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.nounA small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
"He had a nip of whiskey."
2.nounA nipple, usually of a woman.
"Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?"
3.nounA playful bite.
"The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip."
4.nounA pinch with the nails or teeth.
5.nounBriskly cold weather.
"There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside."
6.nounA seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
"the nip of masses of ice"
7.nounA small cut, or a cutting off the end.
8.nounA more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
9.nounA blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
10.nounA biting sarcasm; a taunt.
11.nounA short turn in a rope.
12.noun(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
13.nounA pickpocket.
14.verbTo catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
15.verbTo remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
16.verbTo blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
17.verbTo annoy, as by nipping.
18.verbTo taunt.
19.verbTo squeeze or pinch.
20.verbTo steal; especially to cut a purse.
21.verbTo make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
"Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?"

Synonyms

a little of the creaturenibblesipzestpiquancepiquancytangtanginesssnippinchsqueezetwinge

Rhymes With

eclipsecome to gripsrelationshipstipsquipshipslipsannular eclipse
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