nippyadjective
uk/ˈnɪp.i/us/ˈnɪp.i/nippy adjective (QUICK)
UK informal able to change speed and direction easily:
a nippy little car
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- mile
- rapid-fire
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
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nippy adjective (COLD)
informal Nippy weather or air is quite cold:
It's a little nippy today - you might need a coat.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- nuclear winter
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
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