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Definition of Nipped
1. nip [v] - See also: nip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nipped
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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