nips

• abducts
• accelerates
• aces
• appropriates
• arrows
• atoms
• barrels
• beats it
• beelines
• beetles
• belts
• bites
• bits
• blasts
• blazes
• blows
• bobs
• bolts
• bombs
• boosts
• bowls
• breezes
• bundles
• burglarizes
• bustles
• buzzes
• cannonballs
• careens
• careers
• carjacks
• catches up
• chases
• chips
• clasps
• clippings
• clips
• clutches
• collars
• courses
• crimps
• crops
• crumbs
• curtails
• cuts
• cuts back
• dabs
• darts
• dashes
• docks
• doses
• dots
• drafts
• drags
• drams
• driblets
• drinks
• drives
• drops
• drops in the bucket
• fast-forwards
• filches
• flakes
• flecks
• flies
• flits
• flyspecks
• fragments
• gallops
• gets a move on
• glimmers
• grabs
• grains
• granules
• grasps
• grips
• gulps
• handfuls
• handsful
• hares
• hastens
• heists
• hies
• highballs
• highjacks
• hijacks
• hints
• holds
• hooks
• hoots
• humps
• hurls
• hurries
• hurtles
• hustles
• iotas
• jets
• jogs
• jots
• jumps
• kidnaps
• knocks over
• licks
• lifts
• little
• loots
• makes away with
• makes off with
• makes tracks
• manicures
• minima
• minims
• minimums
• misappropriates
• mites
• modicums
• molecules
• mooches
• morsels
• motes
• motors
• mows
• nails
• nibbles
• nicks
• nubbins
• ounces
• outpaces
• outruns
• outstrips
• overtakes
• pares
• parings
• particles
• parts
• patches
• peanuts
• pelts
• picks
• pilfers
• pillages
• pinches
• plunders
• poaches
• pockets
• polls
• portions
• prunes
• purloins
• quaffs
• quickens
• races
• rams
• rays
• rifles
• rips
• rips off
• robs
• rockets
• runs
• runs off with
• rushes
• rustles
• sacks
• scampers
• scatterings
• scintillas
• scoots
• scraps
• scruples
• scuds
• scuffles
• scurries
• scuttles
• sections
• seizes
• semblances
• shades
• shadows
• shakes a leg
• shanghais
• shards
• shaves
• shavings
• shears
• shivers
• shoots
• shoplifts
• shortens
• shots
• shreds
• sips
• skives
• skoshes
• slivers
• slugs
• smacks
• smatterings
• smatters
• smells
• smidgens
• smidgeons
• smidges
• smidgins
• smithereens
• snaps
• snatches
• snips
• snitches
• snorts
• sparks
• spatters
• specks
• speeds
• spirits
• splashes
• splinters
• sponges
• spots
• sprinklings
• sprints
• stampedes
• steals
• steps
• steps on it
• steps out
• strains
• streaks
• stumps
• sups
• suspicions
• swallows
• swigs
• swills
• swipes
• syllables
• takes
• tastes
• tatters
• tears
• thieves
• tittles
• touches
• traces
• travels
• trims
• trots
• tweaks
• vestiges
• walks off with
• whirls
• whisks
• whits
• whittles
• whizzes
• zips
• zooms

• abundances
• ambles
• barrels
• bestows
• boatloads
• bonanzas
• buckets
• bundles
• bushels
• buys
• chunks
• contributes
• crawls
• creeps
• dallies
• dawdles
• deals
• decelerates
• dillydallies
• donates
• drags
• drops
• elongates
• embarrassments
• excesses
• extends
• fistfuls
• frees
• gives
• gobs
• hands over
• heaps
• hunks
• lags
• lashings
• lashins
• lengthens
• lingers
• loads
• loiters
• loosens
• looses
• lots
• lumbers
• lumps
• masses
• messes
• mountains
• much
• oodles
• overabundances
• overages
• overflows
• overkills
• overmuch
• oversupplies
• passels
• pecks
• piles
• plenties
• plods
• pokes
• potfuls
• presents
• profusions
• purchases
• quantities
• rafts
• reams
• releases
• saunters
• scads
• shuffles
• slabs
• springs
• stacks
• strolls
• superabundances
• superfluities
• surfeits
• surpluses
• tarries
• volumes
• wads
• wealths

• noun
  1. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
  2. A nipple, usually of a woman.
  3. A playful bite.
  4. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  5. Briskly cold weather.
  6. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
  7. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  8. A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
  9. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  10. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  11. A short turn in a rope.
  12. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
  13. A pickpocket.
• 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. To squeeze or pinch.
  7. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
  8. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

• The cold wind nips at your skin early in the morning.
• The puppy playfully nips at everyone’s ankles.
• Frost nips the leaves, leaving them edged in white.
• He quickly nips into the shop to grab a drink.
• A sharp breeze nips at your face as you step outside.

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