(to) nip (1)
111nip something in the bud — suppress or destroy something at an early stage. → nip …
112nip something off — remove something by pinching or squeezing sharply. → nip …
113nip something in the bud — before your children start spending most of their free time in front of the television or computer, nip it in the bud Syn: cut short, curtail, check, curb, thwart, frustrate, stop, halt, arrest, stifle, obstruct, block, squash, quash, subdue,… …
114nip — I v 1. pinch, bite, bite in, tweak, vellicate, chomp, incise. 2. snip, cut, cut off, lop, sunder; crop, truncate, dock, take off, snap, crack off, shave off, shear, clip. 3. retard, check, shorten, cut short, abbreviate; blight, supress, stunt,… …
115nip something in the bud — informal to stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development We need to nip this bad behaviour in the bud …
116Nip it in the bud — If you nip something in the bud, you deal with a problem when it is still small, before it can grow into something serious …
117Nip — /nɪp/ (say nip) noun Colloquial (derogatory) (racist) a Japanese person. {shortened form of Nipponese} …
118nip — Hō aki, a aki, aki, akipohe, ini iniki; ♦ nip off, ōmu o, ōmaka, ō ū …
119nip — Addressed to a person of Japanese ancestry, though not in polite conversation. The word is an abbreviation of ‘Nipponese’, which means Japanese. ‘Ya cute little fuckin Nip, ya’ is addressed to an American policeman named Tanaguchi in The… …
120To nip in the bud — Nip Nip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nipped}, less properly {Nipt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nipping}.] [OE. nipen; cf. D. niipen to pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to pinch, LG. knipen, G. kneipen, kneifen, to pinch, cut off, nip, Lith.… …
