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Definition of Nip off

1. Verb. Sever or remove by pinching or snipping. "Nip off the flowers"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nip Off

Literary usage of Nip off

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

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"To move about quickly, to be nimble; as " Now then, nip off;" " Nip about ... NIP UP or nip off, v.—To snatch up quickly: as "She nipped up the bairn in a ..."

2. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"nip off the caudal root of the zygoma, including the Fs. mandibularis. ... nip off the occipital condyles, with the intervening area of the basioccipital ..."

3. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"To move about quickly, to be nimble; as " Now then, nip off;" " Nip about ... NIP UP or nip off, f.—To snatch up quickly: as "She nipped up the bairn in a ..."

4. A Dictionary of the German and English Languages ...by George J. Adler by George J. Adler (1897)
"... to nip off: ßf. to pinch off: to squeeze out of. to extort. ... 5( Ь jWi (fe П, г. о. to nip off pinch off. bj ..."

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