1. to seize and pinch or bite: the fish nipped the wader's toe.
2. to remove or sever by pinching or snipping: nipped off the plant leaf.
3. to bite or sting with the cold; chill.
4. to check or cut off the growth or development of: a conspiracy that was nipped in the bud by the police. see synonyms at blast.
5. slang to snatch up hastily.
6. slang to take (the property of another) unlawfully; steal.
7. chiefly british to move quickly; dart.
8. the act or an instance of seizing or pinching.
9. A pinch or snip that cuts off or removes a small part: he gave a small nip to each corner of the cloth.
10. the small bit or portion so removed: there were nips of construction paper all over the child's table.
11. A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air.
12. severely sharp cold or frost.
13. A cutting remark.
14. A sharp, biting flavor; a tang: the nip of mexican salsa.
15. A small amount of liquor.
16. to sip (alcoholic liquor) in small amounts: had been nipping brandy.
17. to take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor: nips all day long.

1. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
2. A nipple, usually of a woman.
3. to catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
4. to remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
5. to blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
6. to vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
7. A playful bite.
8. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
9. briskly cold weather.
10. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
11. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
12. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
13. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
14. the place of intersection where one roll touches another in papermaking.
15. A pickpocket.
16. to make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.

1. A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
2. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
3. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
4. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
5. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
6. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
7. A short turn in a rope.
8. to catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
9. to remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
10. hence: to blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
11. to vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

1. to press sharply and tightly between two surfaces or points, as of the fingers; pinch.
2. figuratively, to press closely upon; affect; concern.
3. to sever or break the edge or end of by pinching; pinch (off) with the ends of the fingers or with pincers or nippers: with off.
4. to blast, as by frost; destroy; check the growth or vigor of.
5. to affect with a sharp tingling sensation; benumb.
6. to bite; sting.
7. to satirize keenly; taunt sarcastically; vex.
8. to steal, pilfer; purloin.
9. to snatch up hastily.
10. to tie or secure a cable with nippers to the messenger.
11. to take a dram or nip. see nip, n.
12. in cricket:
13. to catch neatly: said of a fielder.
14. to break sharply: said of a bowled ball.
15. to cut a low cliff in (the border of the land) by wave action.
16. the act of compressing between two opposing surfaces or points, as in seizing and compressing a bit of the skin between the fingers; a pinch.
17. A closing in of ice about a vessel so as to press upon or crush her.
18. A pinch which severs or removes a part; a snipping, biting, or pinching off.
19. A small bit of anything; as much as may be nipped off by the finger and thumb.
20. A check to growth from a sudden blasting or attack from frost or cold; a sharp frost-bite which kills the tips or ends of a plant or leaf.
21. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
22. A thief; a pickpocket.
23. in coal-mining, a thinning of a bed of coal by a gradual depression of the roof, so that the seam sometimes almost entirely disappears for a certain distance, while the beds above and below are only slightly, or not at all, affected in a similar maimer. also called a want.
24. Naut.:
25. A short turn in a rope.
26. the part of a rope at the place bound by a seizing or caught by jamming.
27. in the wool-combing machine, a mechanism the action of which is closely analogous to that of the human hand in grasping.
28. A sip or small draught, especially of some strong spirituous beverage: as, a, nip of brandy.
29. A short steep ascent.
30. A hill or mountain.
31. A turnip.
32. mist; darkness.
33. the place of contact between two cylinders, rollers, or bowls.
34. to take a new hold; refresh the memory.
35. A low cliff cut in the border of land near the sea.

1. a small sharp bite or snip
2. give a small sharp bite to
3. squeeze tightly between the fingers
4. a tart spicy quality
5. (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of japanese descent
6. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
7. a small drink of liquor
8. sever or remove by pinching or snipping
9. the property of being moderately cold