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nip

noun as in swallow, taste

verb as in bite; take small part

verb as in stop, thwart

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Instead, it stocked up to 65 jacket designs, with asymmetrical necklines, embroidered lapels, zippers running vertically from hip to nip, accented with strips of leather, you name it.

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They harassed the poor puffin, nipping at his tail and his wings, and finally they grabbed his fish and sent him tumbling into the sea.

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Ratings-wise it is nipping at the heels of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

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In 2002, Vaughan tweaked his technique because dismissals to deliveries that nipped back to the right-hander were "doing my nut in".

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Some polls now show the biggest of those groups, the Democratic Alliance, nipping at the heels of the party of Mandela for the first time, as local elections approach next year.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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