nip

Speech parts

1. nip - Noun

2. nip - Adjective

3. nip - Verb

4. Nip - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

jap tang twitch savor shot flavor clip squeeze pinch coolness zest piquancy snip twinge chilliness
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Antonyms

gorge blizzard mountain come allow bucket
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Hypernyms

japanese cut cold taste grip bite

Hyponyms

lemon vanilla goose tweak

Phrases with the word

nip in the bud in the nip nip on ahead nip something in the bud nip away

Derivatives

nipped nipt nipping

Examples

Nip 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

Close letter words and terms

NIOSH niosomal niosome nip and tuck nip at nip away