Usually means: Biting lightly, usually without harm.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipping: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nipping, nipping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nipping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nipping: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nipping: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nipping, nipping: Wordnik
  7. nipping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nipping: Wiktionary
  9. nipping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nipping: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nipping, nipping: Dictionary.com
  12. nipping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Nipping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. nipping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. nipping: Rhymezone
  16. Nipping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. nipping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. nipping: Free Dictionary
  19. nipping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. nipping: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nipping: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nipping: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nipping: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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noun:  The act or sensation of giving a nip.

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