nip
/nɪp/ noun C2- A playful bite. · The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- Briskly cold weather. · There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching · the nip of masses of ice
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
Plural nips
From the library
“Well, maybe a wee nip would keep out the raw morning chill.
I can’t help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they’ll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us.
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