nip
Meaning of nip
noun
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
He had a nip of whiskey.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?
- A playful bite.
The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- Briskly cold weather.
There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
the nip of masses of ice
- 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.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pickpocket.
- 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 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 make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
Information about nip
- The plural form of nip is: nips.
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Hyphenation of nip
nip
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- nip is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
nip synonyms
Meaning shot:
Meaning Jap:
Meaning relish:
relish, flavor, sapidity, savor, smack, tang
Meaning chilliness:
Meaning piquance:
piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest
Meaning pinch:
pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, twitch
Meaning nip off:
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Anagrams of nip
Words that rhyme with nip
Nip, manip, genip, finnip, pogonip, turnip, snip, parsnip, catnip, frostnip
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