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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



... morn of life o'ercast, Chill came the tempest's lower; (And ne'er misfortune's eastern blast Did nip ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... legs. 'Not from you, captain. You're far too mean, b'gosh. You would let a good man die sooner than give him a drop of schnapps. That's what you Germans call economy. Penny wise, pound foolish.' He became sentimental. The chief had given him a four-finger nip about ten o'clock—'only one, s'elp me!'—good old chief; but as to getting the old fraud out of his bunk—a five-ton crane couldn't do it. Not it. Not to-night anyhow. He was sleeping sweetly like a little child, with a bottle of prime brandy under his pillow. From the thick ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... to them, then later, another. But the husband and wife drew no nearer together. She had an affection for her children almost like a cool governess. He had an emotional man's fear of sentiment, which helped to nip his wife from putting out any shoots. He treated his children roughly, and pretended to think it a good job when one was adopted by a well-to-do maternal aunt. But in his soul he hated his wife that she could give away one of his children. For after her cool ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... The awakening of the Orient, from Constantinople to Pekin, is the greatest and most hopeful political fact of our time, and it is with the deepest shame that English Liberals have been compelled to look on while our Foreign Office has made itself the accomplice in the attempt to nip Persian freedom in the bud, and that in the interest of the most ruthless tyranny that has ever crushed the liberties of a ...
— Liberalism • L. T. Hobhouse
... thoroughbreds and saddlers, but for obvious reasons that had been impossible. But he went his jaunty way, waxing his moustaches, squandering his money on fancy neckties, taking his surreptitious nip with all the gay bravado of thirty years before, and getting seedier and seedier. He was a dandelion withering on the stalk. He had long since given up hope of being anything else but bookkeeper in the "Golden Rule," and indeed it was only the stock which he held in that institution that ...
— Stubble • George Looms


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