Definitions for nips

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IPA: /nɪp/

Nips is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in nips (inps).

Definitions for nips

noun

1. an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
2. a biting quality, as in cold or frosty air:
3. sharp cold; a sharp touch of frost:
4. a sharp or biting remark.
5. a biting taste or tang, especially in some cheese.
6. a small bit or quantity of anything:
7. Nautical. an abrupt turn or twist in a rope. a part of a rope or chain bound by a seizing or nipper.
8. Usually, nips. nipper (def 2).
9. a small drink of alcoholic liquor; sip:
10. Chiefly British. split (def 27).

Idioms

1. nip and tuck, with each competitor equaling or closely contesting the speed, scoring, or efforts of the other:
2. nip in the bud. bud1 (def 13).

noun, adjective

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Japanese person.

verb (used with object)

1. to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
2. to take off by pinching, biting, or snipping (usually followed by off):
3. to check in growth or development.
4. to affect sharply and painfully or injuriously, as a very cold temperature:
5. Informal. to snatch away suddenly.
6. Informal. to defeat (an opponent) by a very close margin; edge.
7. Informal. to steal or pilfer.
8. Nautical. (of ice) to press (a ship) from opposite sides. to seize (a taut rope) to another rope.

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly British Slang. to leave stealthily; sneak away; flee (often followed by away).

verb (used with or without object)

1. to drink (alcoholic liquor) in small sips, especially repeatedly.

Origin of nips

1350-1400; Middle English nyppe to pinch Old Norse hnippa to poke, thrust

Examples for nips

She is a very cross hen, and she nips my fingers when I feed her.

The Senate Finance spokesperson, Scott Moorehauser, dismisses the whole subject of nips and tucks as a “ total non-starter.”

The world turns round as gently as ever; the flowers bud into life; and the winter nips them.

The conductor answers him, nips a spiteful nick out of his ticket, and hurries on.

He nips with his cold fingers the insects that do our plants harm.

She nips into the boat and under the stern-sheets in a brace o' shakes.

There was a playfulness about her nips and a gentleness that prevented them from really hurting him.

When snow covers all other food, he nips buds from low plants.

It gets under my bearskin; it nips my ears and numbs my hands.

You're worth a thousand bucks to any fly-cop that nips you in this town.