Usually means: Small bites, sips, or pinches.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word nips:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. nips: Merriam-Webster
  2. nips, nips: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nips: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Nips, nips: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nips, nips: Wordnik
  6. nips: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. NIPs, Nips, nips: Wiktionary
  8. NIPS: Dictionary.com
  9. nips: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. NIPS (disambiguation), NIPS, The Nips: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nips: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. nips: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nips: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NIPS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. nips: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the nips: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See nip as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (NIP)

verb:  To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
verb:  To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
verb:  To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
verb:  To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
verb:  To annoy, as by nipping.
verb:  To taunt.
verb:  (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
verb:  (obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
noun:  A playful bite.
noun:  A pinch with the nails or teeth.
noun:  Briskly cold weather.
noun:  A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
noun:  A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
noun:  (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
noun:  A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
noun:  A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
noun:  (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
noun:  (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
noun:  (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
noun:  A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
verb:  (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
verb:  (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
noun:  (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
noun:  (dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.
adjective:  (dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Japanese.
noun:  (US) Abbreviation of National Immunization Program.
noun:  Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.
noun:  (UK) Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
adjective:  (classified ads) Abbreviation of new in package.
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