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Antonyms for nip
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  1. Nipnoun

    Synonyms:
    Jap

  2. nip4

    A Japanese person

    Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?

    Synonyms:
    Jap

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  1. nip, shotnoun

    a small drink of liquor

    "he poured a shot of whiskey"

    Synonyms:
    shaft, coolness, stab, flavour, dig, zest, guessing, snap, savor, piquantness, guesswork, tanginess, savour, blastoff, stroke, barb, chilliness, shooter, slam, sapidity, pinch, crack, snapshot, shooting, smack, gibe, guess, piquance, tang, scene, relish, jibe, flavor, injection, piquancy, pellet, dead reckoning, shot

  2. relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tangnoun

    the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms:
    coolness, look, thunder, zest, sea tangle, gusto, smell, big H, savor, slap, piquantness, sea tang, smacking, tanginess, savour, bladderwrack, scag, skag, sapidity, spirit, bladder fucus, tone, black rockweed, feel, flavour, nose drops, smack, pinch, piquance, tang, serrated wrack, hell dust, chilliness, relish, smooch, zestfulness, flavor, feeling, sapidness, piquancy, shot

  3. chilliness, coolness, nipnoun

    the property of being moderately cold

    "the chilliness of early morning"

    Synonyms:
    chilliness, flavour, zest, imperturbableness, relish, piquantness, pinch, piquancy, savour, flavor, piquance, coldness, frigidity, smack, tanginess, imperturbability, frigidness, nervelessness, coolness, tang, sapidity, iciness, savor, shot

  4. nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zestnoun

    a tart spicy quality

    Synonyms:
    chilliness, serrated wrack, flavour, sea tangle, relish, tanginess, piquantness, pinch, bladderwrack, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, smack, sea tang, coolness, black rockweed, bladder fucus, piquancy, sapidity, zestfulness, tang, savor, shot, gusto

  5. nip, pinchverb

    a small sharp bite or snip

    Synonyms:
    jot, apprehension, chilliness, touch, flavour, exigency, collar, tinge, relish, tanginess, piquantness, pinch, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, soupcon, catch, smack, speck, hint, coolness, tweak, mite, emergency, piquancy, sapidity, taking into custody, arrest, tang, savor, shot

  6. pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitchverb

    squeeze tightly between the fingers

    "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

    Synonyms:
    cabbage, hook, pressure, nobble, thrust, clip, rack, sting, hale, filch, twitch, gouge, tweet, top, jerk, force, lift, shove, crimp, abstract, twinge, compress, hug, flip, pilfer, embrace, prick, purloin, snarf, compact, press, extort, stuff, squeeze, sneak, contract, squash, nip off, bosom, twirp, pinch, swipe, wring, mash, coerce, snip off, wedge, squelch, snip, constrict, crush, vellicate

  7. nipverb

    give a small sharp bite to

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

    Synonyms:
    nip off, snip, clip, squeeze, pinch, twitch, snip off, tweet, twinge

  8. nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip offverb

    sever or remove by pinching or snipping

    "nip off the flowers"

    Synonyms:
    tweet, twitch, nip off, cut back, cut short, jog, prune, crop, twinge, pinch, squeeze, dress, trot, snip off, curtail, lop, trim, snip, clip

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  1. nipnoun

    Synonyms:
    pinch, blast, cut, sarcasm, taunt, gibe

  2. nipverb

    Synonyms:
    pinch, clip, cut off, blast, kill, chill, deaden, benumb

How to use nip in a sentence?

  1. Snoop Dogg:

    Nip ended up creating a square, he ended up( buying) property. ... He built his own Doggyland. He built his own that people from around the world are starting to come to, take pictures of, stand in front of and immortalize this man.

  2. Larry Sabato:

    It is hurting McAuliffe, there is just no question about it, my sense of it is if they can get some reasonable compromise passed into law... this would stabilize both Joe Biden and McAuliffe. And if it collapses, I think it will be a nip and tuck race and the momentum would be more with Youngkin than McAuliffe.

  3. Rick Wilson:

    There's an awful lot of interest now in making certain that Donald Trump doesn't lead to the inevitable election of either Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden by a number of interested conservative outside parties, this has to be like shark attacks. Nip. Nip. Blood. Nip. Blood. Blood. Blood. A feeding frenzy.

  4. High Court:

    The government is obliged to take all lawful measures to nip acts of terrorism in the bud, and such measures ought to be supported by Kenyans of all walks of life, such moves, however, must pass constitutional and legal muster.

  5. Joel Benenson:

    We always said there would be a tight race in New Hampshire, we see this race as kind of where we expected it to be, nip and tuck all the way to the primary.

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