Synonyms for nip
nɪpnip

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1. Nipnoun

   Synonyms:
   Jap

2. nip4

   A Japanese person

   Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?

   Synonyms:
   Jap

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1. nip, shotnoun

   a small drink of liquor

   "he poured a shot of whiskey"

   Synonyms:
   shaft, coolness, stab, flavour, dig, zest, guessing, snap, savor, piquantness, guesswork, tanginess, savour, blastoff, stroke, barb, chilliness, shooter, slam, sapidity, pinch, crack, snapshot, shooting, smack, gibe, guess, piquance, tang, scene, relish, jibe, flavor, injection, piquancy, pellet, dead reckoning, shot

2. relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tangnoun

   the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

   Synonyms:
   coolness, look, thunder, zest, sea tangle, gusto, smell, big H, savor, slap, piquantness, sea tang, smacking, tanginess, savour, bladderwrack, scag, skag, sapidity, spirit, bladder fucus, tone, black rockweed, feel, flavour, nose drops, smack, pinch, piquance, tang, serrated wrack, hell dust, chilliness, relish, smooch, zestfulness, flavor, feeling, sapidness, piquancy, shot

3. chilliness, coolness, nipnoun

   the property of being moderately cold

   "the chilliness of early morning"

   Synonyms:
   chilliness, flavour, zest, imperturbableness, relish, piquantness, pinch, piquancy, savour, flavor, piquance, coldness, frigidity, smack, tanginess, imperturbability, frigidness, nervelessness, coolness, tang, sapidity, iciness, savor, shot

4. nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zestnoun

   a tart spicy quality

   Synonyms:
   chilliness, serrated wrack, flavour, sea tangle, relish, tanginess, piquantness, pinch, bladderwrack, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, smack, sea tang, coolness, black rockweed, bladder fucus, piquancy, sapidity, zestfulness, tang, savor, shot, gusto

5. nip, pinchverb

   a small sharp bite or snip

   Synonyms:
   jot, apprehension, chilliness, touch, flavour, exigency, collar, tinge, relish, tanginess, piquantness, pinch, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, soupcon, catch, smack, speck, hint, coolness, tweak, mite, emergency, piquancy, sapidity, taking into custody, arrest, tang, savor, shot

6. pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitchverb

   squeeze tightly between the fingers

   "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

   Synonyms:
   cabbage, hook, pressure, nobble, thrust, clip, rack, sting, hale, filch, twitch, gouge, tweet, top, jerk, force, lift, shove, crimp, abstract, twinge, compress, hug, flip, pilfer, embrace, prick, purloin, snarf, compact, press, extort, stuff, squeeze, sneak, contract, squash, nip off, bosom, twirp, pinch, swipe, wring, mash, coerce, snip off, wedge, squelch, snip, constrict, crush, vellicate

7. nipverb

   give a small sharp bite to

   "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"

   Synonyms:
   nip off, snip, clip, squeeze, pinch, twitch, snip off, tweet, twinge

8. nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip offverb

   sever or remove by pinching or snipping

   "nip off the flowers"

   Synonyms:
   tweet, twitch, nip off, cut back, cut short, jog, prune, crop, twinge, pinch, squeeze, dress, trot, snip off, curtail, lop, trim, snip, clip

Matched Categories

1. • Bite
   • Cut
   • Small Indefinite Quantity

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1. walk briskly

   a quick, brief walk

   used colloquially in the phrase “nip (on) over” to refer to a brief walk

   Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017  

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1. nipverb

   Synonyms:
   pinch, compress, squeeze, gripe

2. nipverb

   Synonyms:
   clip, cut off

3. nipverb

   Synonyms:
   blast, bite, destroy, ruin

4. nipnoun

   Synonyms:
   pinch, bite

5. nipnoun

   Synonyms:
   bit, small cut

6. nipnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Low.] dram, nipper, sip, drink

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1. nipnoun

   Synonyms:
   pinch, blast, cut, sarcasm, taunt, gibe

2. nipverb

   Synonyms:
   pinch, clip, cut off, blast, kill, chill, deaden, benumb

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1. List of paraphrases for "nip":

   pine, pin, anp, napa, jap, napas, stifle, ncb, int, nips, suffocate, smother, pins, pna, nap

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How to use nip in a sentence?

1. Joel Benenson:

   We always said there would be a tight race in New Hampshire, we see this race as kind of where we expected it to be, nip and tuck all the way to the primary.

2. High Court:

   The government is obliged to take all lawful measures to nip acts of terrorism in the bud, and such measures ought to be supported by Kenyans of all walks of life, such moves, however, must pass constitutional and legal muster.

3. Snoop Dogg:

   Nip ended up creating a square, he ended up( buying) property. ... He built his own Doggyland. He built his own that people from around the world are starting to come to, take pictures of, stand in front of and immortalize this man.

4. Hugh Jackman:

   We love every flavor, some of us even like it with a little nip added. But more importantly, we love the woman who created it, Blake Lively. You are a one-of-a-kind, Blake, you are just fun. You are creative. You are sunshine seven days a week. And you're a saint for marrying the man. Sorry, not sorry.

5. Snoop Dogg:

   For God so loved the world, that he gave us a good Crip, the late great neighborhood Nip. Rest in peace.