nip

noun14

1. •
   A playful bite.

   • The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
2. •
   A pinch with the nails or teeth.
3. •
   A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

   • the nip of masses of ice
4. •
   A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.

   • I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
   • He had a nip of whiskey.
5. •
   Briskly cold weather.

   • There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
6. •
   [in the plural] (slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.

   • Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?
7. •
   A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
8. •
   A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
9. •
   A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
10. •
    The place of intersection where one roll touches another
11. •
    A short turn in a rope.
12. •
    A hamburger.
13. •
    A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
14. •
    (UK, no longer used) A pickpocket.

    • A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse. — 1977

verb11

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.

   • May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. — 1859
2. •
   (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

   • Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
3. •
   To squeeze or pinch.
4. •
   To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

   • The small shoots ... must be nipt off. — 1716
5. •
   To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
6. •
   To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
7. •
   To annoy, as by nipping.

   • And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. — 1590
8. •
   To taunt.
9. •
   (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
10. •
    (UK, no longer used) To steal; especially to cut a purse.

    • Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you. — 1611
11. •
    (no longer used) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'

    • He had never expected to fling the soldier, or to be flung by Flea. “One nips or is nipped,” he thought, “and never knows beforehand. …" — 1907

adjective1

1. •
   Abbreviation of new in package.

noun2

1. •
   (UK) Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
2. •
   Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.

adjective1

1. •
   (slang, offensive) Japanese.

noun1

1. •
   (slang, offensive) A Japanese person.