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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | barbed, biting, mordacious, pungent |
Examples of nipping
nipping
Nipping conflict in the bud by silencing dark propaganda would do a lot of good.
From the economist.com
Will these opposites find a way to share a kennel without nipping at each other?
From the philly.com
When he persisted in nipping at her and the hose, she flopped him onto his back.
From the omaha.com
I can understand a dog biting or nipping, but to maul somebody until he's dead?
From the sfgate.com
Apple's iPad continues to lead in tablets but there are many nipping at its feet.
From the techcrunch.com
Both teams are nipping at the heels of leaders North Chicago and Vernon Hills.
From the dailyherald.com
Let's look at some successful tactics for nipping that office nuisance in the bud.
From the abcnews.go.com
For a while now, though, the pinching has been nipping too painfully for some.
From the economist.com
In America electronic upstarts have been nipping at the exchanges'heels for years.
From the economist.com
- A small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey"
- Pinch: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"
- Give a small sharp bite to; "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"
- Jap: (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
- Relish: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
- Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) was a professional Counter-Strike clan based in Sweden. They were considered to be one of the top teams in the world by many, including GotFrag.
- In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, a complete theory T is said to satisfy NIP (or "not the independence property") if none of its formulae satisfy the independence property, that is if none of its formulae can pick out any given subset of an arbitrarily large finite set.
- (NIPS) Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December in Vancouver, Canada. It began in 1987 as a computational cognitive science conference, and was held in Denver, Colorado until 2000.
