Definition of Nipped

1. Verb. (past of nip) ¹

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Definition of Nipped

1. nip [v] - See also: nip

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nipped

niobous
niocalite
niopo
nip
nip and tuck
nip in the bud
nip off
nip point
nip points
nipa
nipa palm
nipas
nipecotic
nipecotic acid
niperotidine
nipped (current term)
nipper
nippered
nippering
nipperkin
nippers
nippier
nippiest
nippily
nippiness
nippinesses
nipping
nippingly
nippit
nippitate

Literary usage of Nipped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"THE GREAT SENATORIAL DEBATE—ATTACK ON NEW ENGLAND—WEBSTER'S REPLY TO HAYNE—NULLIFICATION nipped IN THE BUD— SOCIETY IN JACKSON'S DAY—MRS. ..."

2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... however this may have been, the seizure of California by Commodore Sloat and the tradition of its sovereignty to the United States nipped the scheme in ..."

3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"... to)d in quilted prose if the translator pleases, but let us not hear of the ' tender shoots of religion' being ' nipped by the scissors of philosophy, ..."

4. A Run Through the United States, During the Autumn of 1840 by Archibald Montgomery Maxwell (1841)
"... the Marble Mason — Summer- house — Black Guardians of the Mansion — Key of the Bastile—Portrait of Washington—Theories nipped in the Bud ..."

5. A Tenderfoot with Peary by George Borup (1911)
"CHAPTER VI HUNTING TRIP TO CAPE COLUMBIA— THE ROOSEVELT nipped BY THE ICE WE stayed around the boat three days and then came a long—at least it seemed long ..."

6. The Last of the Arctic Voyages: Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H. M by Edward Belcher, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, John William Salter, Lovell Reeve (1855)
"The' Resolute' nipped.—Docking.—Blasting Ice.—Wreck of the ' Regalia.'—Meet a Whaler.—Irregularities of the Crew.—Melville Bay. ..."

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