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