nip

nip is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses

Definitions

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

    Synonyms: pinch

13. noun. a tart spicy quality

    Synonyms: piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest

14. noun. the property of being moderately cold

    "the chilliness of early morning"

    Synonyms: chilliness, coolness

15. noun. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms: flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang

16. noun. (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent

    Synonyms: jap

17. noun. a small drink of liquor

    "he poured a shot of whiskey"

    Synonyms: shot

18. verb. give a small sharp bite to

    "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"

19. verb. sever or remove by pinching or snipping

    "nip off the flowers"

    Synonyms: clip, snip

20. verb. squeeze tightly between the fingers

    "He pinched her behind"

    "She squeezed the bottle"

    Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch

Synonyms

pinch, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest, chilliness, coolness, flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, jap, shot, clip, snip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in nip:

pin

Common word forms

nips, nipped, nipper, nipping

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