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What does nip mean?

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Noun
  1. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
Noun
  1. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
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 blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  4. To annoy, as by nipping.
  5. To taunt.
  6. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
  7. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
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 blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  7. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  8. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
  9. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
  10. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
Verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
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