Nip vs. Snip — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nip and Snip
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Nip
Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent and origin. The word Nip is an abbreviation from Nippon (日本), the Japanese name for Japan.
Snip
To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes.
Nip
To seize and pinch or bite
The fish nipped the wader's toe.
Snip
To cut or clip with short, quick strokes.
Nip
To remove or sever by pinching or snipping
Nipped off the plant leaf.
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Snip
An instance of snipping or the sound produced by snipping.
Nip
To bite or sting with the cold; chill.
Snip
A small cut made with scissors or shears.
Nip
To check or cut off the growth or development of
A conspiracy that was nipped in the bud by the police.
Snip
A small piece cut or clipped off.
Nip
To snatch up hastily.
Snip
A bit or scrap
Snips of information about the merger.
Nip
To take (the property of another) unlawfully; steal.
Snip
One that is small or slight in size or stature.
Nip
To move quickly; dart.
Snip
A person regarded as impertinent or mischievous.
Nip
To sip (alcoholic liquor) in small amounts
Had been nipping brandy.
Snip
Snips (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Hand shears used in cutting sheet metal.
Nip
To take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor
Nips all day long.
Snip
(Slang) Something easily accomplished.
Nip
The act or an instance of seizing or pinching.
Snip
To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
Nip
A pinch or snip that cuts off or removes a small part
He gave a small nip to each corner of the cloth.
Snip
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
Nip
The small bit or portion so removed
There were nips of construction paper all over the child's table.
Snip
To break off; to snatch away.
Nip
A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air.
Snip
(informal) To circumcise.
Nip
Severely sharp cold or frost.
Snip
To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
Nip
A cutting remark.
Snip
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
Nip
A sharp, biting flavor; a tang
The nip of Mexican salsa.
Snip
A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
Nip
A small amount of liquor.
Snip
A small amount of something; a pinch.
Nip
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
He had a nip of whiskey.
Snip
A piece cut out by snipping.
Nip
A nipple, usually of a woman.
Snip
(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.
Nip
A playful bite.
The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
Snip
A vasectomy.
Nip
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Snip
(informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
Nip
Briskly cold weather.
There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
Snip
(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
Nip
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
The nip of masses of ice
Snip
(dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
Nip
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
Snip
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
Nip
(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
Snip
A tailor.
Nip
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
Snip
A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
Nip
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
Snip
To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
Nip
(nautical) A short turn in a rope.
Snip
A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
Nip
(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
Snip
A small shred; a bit cut off.
Nip
A pickpocket.
Snip
A share; a snack.
Nip
A hamburger.
Snip
A tailor.
Nip
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
Snip
Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Nip
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
Snip
A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
Nip
To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
Snip
The act of clipping or snipping
Nip
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
Snip
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
Nip off the flowers
Nip
To annoy, as by nipping.
Snip
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
Dress the plants in the garden
Nip
To taunt.
Nip
To squeeze or pinch.
Nip
To steal; especially to cut a purse.
Nip
To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
Nip
(informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
Nip
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
Nip
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
Nip
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Nip
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
Nip
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
Nip
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
Nip
A short turn in a rope.
Nip
To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell,Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat,If I be such a traitress.
Nip
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
Nip
Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
Nip
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
Nip
A small drink of liquor;
He poured a shot of whiskey
Nip
A person of Japanese descent
Nip
A tart spiciness
Nip
A small drink
Nip
Small sharp biting
Nip
Squeeze tightly between the fingers;
He pinched her behind
She squeezed the bottle
Nip
Give a small sharp bite to;
The Queen's corgies always nip at her staff's ankles
Nip
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
Nip off the flowers
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