Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- 4transitive verb
Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- 5transitive verb
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
- 6noun
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
- 7noun
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- 8noun
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- 9noun
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- 10noun
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- 11noun
A short turn in a rope.
- 12noun
a small sharp bite or snip
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- 13noun
a tart spicy quality
- 14noun
the property of being moderately cold
"the chilliness of early morning"
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- 15noun
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- 16noun
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
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- 17noun
a small drink of liquor
"he poured a shot of whiskey"
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- 18verb
give a small sharp bite to
"The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"
- 19verb
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
"nip off the flowers"
- 20verb
squeeze tightly between the fingers
"He pinched her behind"
"She squeezed the bottle"
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