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- the barbecue sauce has a nip to it that balances out the sweetness
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- I'll have just a nip of your sandwich
Synonyms for nip
- ace,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dram,
- driblet,
- glimmer,
- hint,
- lick,
- little,
- mite,
- ounce,
- particle,
- peanuts,
- ray,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shred,
- skosh,
- smack,
- smell,
- smidgen
- (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
- snap,
- soupçon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- speck,
- splash,
- spot,
- sprinkling,
- strain,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- tad,
- touch,
- trace
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- abundance,
- barrel,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- deal,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lot,
- mass,
- mess,
- mountain,
- much,
- oodles,
- passel,
- peck,
- pile,
- plenty,
- potful,
- profusion,
- quantity,
- raft,
- reams,
- scads,
- stack,
- wad,
- wealth
- there's a nip in the air today
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of nip (Entry 3 of 3)
- I'm just going to nip these hedges, and then I'll be done with the work outside
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- that guy nipped my wallet from the restaurant table when I turned away
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- I'll just nip off to the corner store for some milk
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- barrel,
- belt,
- blast,
- blaze,
- blow,
- bolt,
- bomb
- [slang],
- bowl,
- breeze,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- buzz,
- cannonball,
- careen,
- career,
- chase,
- course,
- crack (on),
- dash,
- drive,
- fly,
- hare,
- hasten,
- hie,
- highball,
- hotfoot (it),
- hump,
- hurl,
- hurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- jet,
- jump,
- motor,
- pelt,
- race,
- ram,
- rip,
- rocket,
- run,
- rush,
- rustle,
- scoot,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- shoot,
- speed,
- step,
- tear,
- travel,
- trot,
- whirl,
- whisk,
- zip,
- zoom
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“Nip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nip. Accessed 19 Oct. 2021.
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