Usually means: Small amount; pinch; bite gently.
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  1. nip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Nip, nip, nip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nip, nip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Nip, nip: Vocabulary.com
  6. nip: Wordnik
  7. Nip, nip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. NIP, Nip, nip: Wiktionary
  9. nip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. NIP: Dictionary.com
  13. nip (n.), nip (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NIP (model theory), NIP, NiP, Nip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nip: Rhymezone
  19. nip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. NIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Nip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. nip: Free Dictionary
  24. nip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. nip: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nip: Seinfeld Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nip: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NIP: CCI Computer
  2. nip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. NIP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. NIP: Acronym Finder
  2. NIP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. nip: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nip (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. nip, nip, nip, nip, nip, nip, nip, nip, nip, Nip, Nip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Nip, nip: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Nip: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Paper Industry (No longer online)
  4. Nip: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See niping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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