Nip

[nɪp]

Definition

(noun.) a small sharp bite or snip.

(noun.) a tart spicy quality.

(noun.) a small drink of liquor; 'he poured a shot of whiskey'.

(verb.) give a small sharp bite to; 'The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles'.

(verb.) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; 'nip off the flowers'.

Edited by Barrett--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

(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.

(v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

(v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

(v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

(n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.

(n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.

(n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

(n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

(n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

(n.) A short turn in a rope.

Checker: Rowena

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Pinch, compress, squeeze, gripe.[2]. Clip, cut off.[3]. Blast, bite, destroy, ruin.

n. [1]. Pinch, bite.[2]. Bit, small cut.[3]. [Low.] Dram, nipper, sip, drink.

Editor: Verna

Definition

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.

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.

Checked by Clarice

Unserious Contents or Definition

Something bracing from without or within When felt in the air, it's a frost. When found in a glass, a life saver.

Editor: Roxanne

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