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Nips

A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.

📖 Definitions of "Nips"

noun
  1. 1

    A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.

    "He had a nip of whiskey."

noun
  1. 1

    A nipple, usually of a woman.

    "Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?"

noun
  1. 1

    A playful bite.

    "The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip."

  2. 2

    A pinch with the nails or teeth.

  3. 3

    Briskly cold weather.

    "There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside."

  4. 4

    A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

    "the nip of masses of ice"

verb
  1. 1

    To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

  4. 4

    To annoy, as by nipping.

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