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单词 nip
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nipverb

uk/nɪp/us/nɪp/-pp-

nip verb (GO QUICKLY)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] UK informal to go somewhere quickly or be somewhere for only a short time:

Can you nip out/round/down to the shop for me?
Shall we nip in to the café for a bite to eat?

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • gallop
  • gun
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • shoot
  • stampede
  • trot

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nip verb (PRESS QUICKLY)

[ I or T ] to press something quickly and quite hard between two objects, especially sharp objects such as teeth or nails:

Josie's hamster nipped me.

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Animal (non-human) behaviour

  • accidental
  • eusocial
  • fledge
  • frisk
  • lap
  • maul
  • migrant
  • mob
  • molt
  • nest
  • nuzzle
  • perch
  • prey
  • ruminate
  • scratch
  • shy
  • skitter
  • slaver 1
  • torpor
  • trot

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Squeezing and grinding

Idiom(s)

nip sth in the bud

nipnoun

uk/nɪp/us/nɪp/

nip noun (COLD)

a nip (in the air) informal

If there is a nip in the air, the air outside is quite cold:

You can tell winter's on its way - there's a real nip in the air in the mornings.

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Cold

  • be (as) cold as ice idiom
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bitterly
  • bone-chilling
  • chill
  • cooling
  • freeze
  • freezing
  • frigid
  • frigid zone
  • frostbite
  • ice-cold
  • icy
  • occluded front
  • perished
  • raw
  • stone-cold
  • windchill
  • wintry

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nip noun (QUICK BITE/PRESS)

an occasion when something nips a person or thing:

The dog gave me a nip when we were playing.

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Animal (non-human) behaviour

  • accidental
  • eusocial
  • fledge
  • frisk
  • lap
  • maul
  • migrant
  • mob
  • molt
  • nest
  • nuzzle
  • perch
  • prey
  • ruminate
  • scratch
  • shy
  • skitter
  • slaver 1
  • torpor
  • trot

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Squeezing and grinding

nip noun (DRINK)

[ C ] UK informal a small amount of strong alcoholic drink:

a nip of gin/brandy

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Alcohol - general words

  • alcopop
  • Angostura
  • aperitif
  • bevvy
  • booze
  • intoxicant
  • kick
  • libation
  • liquid lunch
  • liquor
  • long drink
  • quickie
  • sake 1
  • sauce
  • slug
  • sly grog
  • snifter
  • something
  • something a little stronger idiom
  • stiff

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Idiom(s)

a nip (here) and a tuck (there)
a nip and tuck
nip and tuck

Nipnoun [ C ]

uk/nɪp/us/nɪp/old-fashioned offensive

an offensive word for a Japanese person

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