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Synonyms for nip
nɪpnip
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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, shotrelish, 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, shotchilliness, coolness, nipnoun
the property of being moderately cold
"the chilliness of early morning"
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chilliness, flavour, zest, imperturbableness, relish, piquantness, pinch, piquancy, savour, flavor, piquance, coldness, frigidity, smack, tanginess, imperturbability, frigidness, nervelessness, coolness, tang, sapidity, iciness, savor, shotnip, 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, gustonip, 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, shotpinch, 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, vellicatenipverb
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, twingenip, 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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Editors Contribution
walk briskly
a quick, brief walk
used colloquially in the phrase “nip (on) over” to refer to a brief walk
Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017
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NIP
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#104 | top | |
#422 | press | |
#446 | look | |
#873 | feel | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1022 | force | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1475 | abstract | |
#1529 | int | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#1909 | emergency | |
#1967 | shot | |
#2181 | spirit | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2712 | scene | |
#2773 | guess | |
#2868 | dress | |
#2935 | feeling | |
#3048 | compact | |
#3071 | pin | |
#3635 | catch | |
#4082 | tone | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4499 | lift | |
#4589 | shooting | |
#4680 | rack | |
#4853 | pine | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#5613 | hook | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5791 | injection | |
#5998 | trim | |
#7263 | pins | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7356 | flip | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#7597 | collar | |
#7788 | dig | |
#7824 | snapshot | |
#8314 | smell | |
#8401 | thunder | |
#8524 | shaft | |
#8705 | flavor | |
#8915 | hint | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#11476 | napa | |
#11614 | squash | |
#11841 | slam | |
#12329 | shooter | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#13411 | wedge | |
#13617 | nip | |
#13626 | hale | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#13972 | hug | |
#14457 | sting | |
#14556 | jerk | |
#14786 | tang | |
#15456 | nap | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16286 | barb | |
#16414 | cabbage | |
#16902 | guessing | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#17484 | slap | |
#18059 | flavour | |
#19308 | tweak | |
#19529 | compress | |
#19711 | stab | |
#20204 | mash | |
#21165 | smack | |
#23816 | snip | |
#25426 | jap | |
#26264 | jog | |
#26967 | pellet | |
#27773 | smother | |
#27854 | relish | |
#28001 | mite | |
#28087 | prick | |
#28948 | shove | |
#30578 | apprehension | |
#30914 | speck | |
#31755 | trot | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#32728 | prune | |
#33729 | zest | |
#34150 | crimp | |
#35877 | twitch | |
#38462 | swipe | |
#38926 | gusto | |
#39234 | savor | |
#40722 | nips | |
#41342 | coolness | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#44346 | jot | |
#44692 | guesswork | |
#48826 | coerce | |
#52344 | ncb | |
#52711 | anp | |
#53106 | pna | |
#55034 | smacking | |
#56661 | savour | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#62045 | squelch | |
#62776 | tinge | |
#66641 | coldness | |
#69333 | wring | |
#73889 | tweet | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#85364 | jibe | |
#91682 | extort | |
#95789 | smooch | |
#96993 | snarf | |
#103450 | scag | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#108267 | constrict | |
#115959 | exigency | |
#176519 | filch | |
#176575 | bladderwrack | |
#183106 | frigidity | |
#199693 | pilfer | |
#209786 | soupcon | |
#213898 | gibe | |
#265303 | blastoff | |
#294748 | chilliness | |
#315766 | piquancy |
How to use nip in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
We love every flavor, some of us even like it with a little nip added. But more importantly, we love the woman who created it, Blake Lively. You are a one-of-a-kind, Blake, you are just fun. You are creative. You are sunshine seven days a week. And you're a saint for marrying the man. Sorry, not sorry.
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.
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- ارتشفArabic
- چرت زدنPersian
- mordiscarPortuguese
- nyp, nafsSwedish
- నిప్Telugu
- kesmeTurkish
- nhỏ nhắnVietnamese
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