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- English Word Nip Definition To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- English Word Nip Definition To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- English Word Nip Definition Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- English Word Nip Definition To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
- English Word Nip Definition A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
- English Word Nip Definition A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- English Word Nip Definition A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- English Word Nip Definition A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- English Word Nip Definition A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- English Word Nip Definition A short turn in a rope.
- English Word Nipped Definition of Nip
- English Word Nipper Definition One who, or that which, nips.
- English Word Nipper Definition A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
- English Word Nipper Definition A satirist.
- English Word Nipper Definition A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
- English Word Nipper Definition The cunner.
- English Word Nipper Definition A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
- English Word Nipperkin Definition A small cup.
- English Word Nippers Definition Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
- English Word Nippers Definition A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.