nippy
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On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a purple-lighted stage and stands next to a drum set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
"Here you find luxury cars that you don't even see in Europe," joked Moustapha from the wheel of a nippy little Suzuki.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
Diana Houston said she got "nippy fingers" as she took this picture of moonrise at Loch an Eilein near Aviemore on Boxing Day.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
Schiff’s rally, held on a nippy, mostly overcast morning, marked the start of a two-week statewide tour, with stops to include San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and San Francisco.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 11, 2023
There were tons of old people, arms wrapped around each other for protection from the nippy wind, probably on their hundredth date.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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The nippier Leceile improved all last year and may be able to get away from these rivals.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The East throws a narrower and a nippier breed.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar' that mornin'.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
On a recent trip to Japan, the press minibus wasn't the nippiest, its engine squealing to keep up with the slick Mercedes of the prime minister a dozen or so vehicles ahead.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023
Bowe is among the most prolific wingers in Europe and the rapidly emerging Gilroy is among the nippiest, having made an eye-catching start to his Test career last month.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012