English Explanatory Dictionary

nip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
  4. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  5. To annoy, as by nipping.
  6. To taunt.
  7. To squeeze or pinch.
  8. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
  9. To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
noun
  1. A playful bite.
  2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  3. Briskly cold weather.
  4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
  5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  6. A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
  7. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  8. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  9. A short turn in a rope.
  10. The place of intersection where one roll touches another
  11. A pickpocket.
noun
  1. A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
noun
  1. A nipple, usually of a woman.
verb
  1. To have erect nipples.
verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
noun
  1. A hamburger.
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of Nip; a Japanese person.
noun
  1. A Japanese person.
adj
  1. Japanese.
name
  1. Abbreviation of National Immunization Program.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.
  2. Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
adj
  1. Abbreviation of new in package.

Pronunciation

nĭp /nɪp/ En-au-nip.ogg

Word forms

nip nips nipping nipped gnip knip

Etymology

From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”). Related to Dutch nijpen, knijpen (“to pinch”), Danish nive (“pinch”); Swedish nypa (“pinch”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“to pinch, cut off, nip”), Old Norse hnippa (“to prod, poke”); Lithuanian knebti.

Synonyms

steal abduct abstract appropriate bag bandit bash and grab bone boost burgle burglarize borrow cheat chore commandeer confiscate convert cop cozen crib embezzle filch fleece flog gaffle gilravage half-inch heave heist jack kidnap knock off kipe kyper liberate lift loot make off with mill misappropriate mooch moonlight requisition nick nip own peculate pickpocket pilfer pinch pillage pirate plunder poach pocket prig purloin raid ransack rape relieve

Related words

nippie

Derived words

nip at frostnip in the nip nimps nip and tuck nipbacker nipcheese nipfarthing nip in the bud nipless nip-outnip-up nipper nip point nip nop nippage nip slip
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