1. nip - Noun
2. nip - Adjective
3. nip - Verb
4. Nip - Proper noun
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
To catch and inclose 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.
Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
A short turn in a rope.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Adams
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. Boyle Roche
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way. Dean Koontz
The playful nip denotes the bite, but it does not denote what would be denoted by the bite. Gregory Bateson
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me. Pat Morita
Nip sin in the bud. French Proverb