Definition of "nip" in Anglais

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. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.

8. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.

9. (obsolete) 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. …"

noun

1. A playful bite.

   • The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.

2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.

3. Briskly cold weather.

   • There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.

4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

   • the nip of masses of ice

5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

6. (mining) 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. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.

10. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another

11. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.

noun

1. 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.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.

   • Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?

verb

1. (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.

verb

1. (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?

noun