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nip

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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. To squeeze or pinch.
  8. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
  9. To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
  10. To have erect nipples.
  11. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

Noun

  1. A playful bite.
  2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  3. Briskly cold weather.
  4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
  5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  6. 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. A short turn in a rope.
  10. The place of intersection where one roll touches another
  11. A pickpocket.
  12. A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
  13. A nipple, usually of a woman.
  14. A hamburger.
  15. Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.
  16. Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
  17. A Japanese person.

Proper noun

  1. Abbreviation of National Immunization Program.

Adjective

  1. Abbreviation of new in package.
  2. Japanese.

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