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Nip off   /nɪp ɔf/   Listen
Nip off

verb
1.
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping.  Synonyms: clip, nip, snip, snip off.





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"Nip off" Quotes from Famous Books



... away, therefore I must eat them as I catch them. What all? Impossible! But would it not be well to keep some for a needy future? If so, I must keep them and feed them too, without their escaping. But how's that to be done? Happy thought! Nip off ...
— The Original Fables of La Fontaine - Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney • Jean de la Fontaine
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... a great mind," thought Sammy, "to let you stay there. I wonder how you would like to stay and have a duck come along and nip off your nose." ...
— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.
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... to the Shermans'? Seems like a hunderd years since I was there. The las' time I laid eyes on Eliza, she was in excellent spirits—I seen the bottle. I wonder if she's still—very still, takin' a sly nip on the side, as she calls it, which means a sly nip off the sideboard. You can take it from me, if she don't let up, before she knows it ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
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