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nipsnoun1pl. of nip a very small amountI'll have just a nip of your sandwich aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillas, scruples, shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces hoots, iotas, jots, minima(or minimums), minims, modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whitsatoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scrapsdashes, drops, pinchesparts, portions, sectionsbites, nibbles, tasteshandfuls(also handsful), scatterings, smatterings, smattersdoses, shotschips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splintersshreds, tattersclippings, parings, shavings drops in the bucket abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealthsvolumesbonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluseschunks, hunks, lumps, slabs nipsnoun2pl. of nipthe portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one timegive me just a nip of milk to help me swallow this pill belts, drafts, drags, drinks, gulps, quaffs, shots, sips, slugs, snorts, sups, swallows, swigs, swills drams, drops nipsverbpresent tense third-person singular of nipto make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentI'm just going to nip these hedges, and then I'll be done with the work outside bobs, clips, crops, cuts, cuts back, docks, lops (off), pares, polls, prunes, shaves, shears, snips, trims skives, whittlesmanicures, mowspinches, stumpscurtails, shortens elongates, extends, lengthens to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or pointsthe puppy nipped her hand while playing pinches crimps, tweaksclasps, clutches, grasps, grips, holds, takes drops, frees, loosens, looses, releases, springs to take (something) without right and with an intent to keepthat guy nipped my wallet from the restaurant table when I turned away appropriates, boosts(slang), filches, heists, hooks, lifts, misappropriates, nicks(British slang), pilfers, pinches, pockets, purloins, rips off, snitches, steals, swipes, thieves burglarizes, knocks over, robsloots, pillages, plunders, sackscarjacks, hijacks(also highjacks)picks, riflespoaches, rustles, shopliftscollars, grabs, grasps, nails, seizes, snatches, takesmooches, spongesabducts, kidnaps, shanghais, spirits makes away with, makes off with, runs off with, walks off with buys, purchasesbestows, contributes, donates, gives, hands over, presents to proceed or move quicklyI'll just nip off to the corner store for some milk barrels, belts, blasts, blazes, blows, bolts, bombs(slang), bowls, breezes, bundles, bustles, buzzes, cannonballs, careens, careers, chases, courses, cracks (on), dashes, drives, flies, hares, hastens, hies, highballs, hotfoots (it), humps, hurls, hurries, hurtles, hustles, jets, jumps, motors, pelts, races, rams, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, rustles, scoots, scurries, scuttles, shoots, speeds, steps, tears, travels, trots, whirls, whisks, zips, zooms beetles, darts, flits, scampers, scuds, scufflesstampedes, streaks, whizzesgallops, jogs, sprintsaccelerates, quickens, steps outcatches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakesarrows, beelines beats it, gets a move on, makes tracks, shakes a leg, steps on it crawls, creeps, pokes dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, drags, hangs (around or out), lags, lingers, loiters, pokes, tarriesambles, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, strollsdecelerates, slows (down or up) |