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Nip vs. Snip — What's the Difference?

Nip vs. Snip — What's the Difference?

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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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