nip
IPA: nˈɪp
noun
- A playful bite.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (mining) 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.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- (slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- (dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.
- (US) Abbreviation of National Immunization Program.
- Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.
- (UK) Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
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.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To taunt.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
- (obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
adjective
- (dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Japanese.
- (classified ads) Abbreviation of new in package.
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Examples of "nip" in Sentences
- Pressure of the nip is variable.
- Completely nip the problem in the bud.
- He was nipping alcohol behind his wife.
- It seems we have nipped the abuse in the bud.
- It is luxuriously designed from nip tip to toe.
- The clamp is released and the nip rolls unlocked.
- The movable vise is leading through the roll nip.
- That's the only way to nip wheel warring in the bud.
- Are you always in the habit of nipping things in the bud
- The mixture is pumped to the headbox and into the nip of the forming wires.
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