Thesaurus: nip

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1. n. A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
2. v. t. 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. v. t. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
4. v. t. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
5. v. t. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
6. n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
7. n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
8. n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
9. n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
10. n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
11. n. A short turn in a rope.
12. n. (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent