Available Definitions:
1) a. - Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
2) v. t. - To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
3) v. t. - To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
4) v. t. - Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
5) v. t. - To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
6) n. - A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
7) n. - A pinch with the nails or teeth.
8) n. - A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
9) n. - A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
10) n. - A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
11) n. - A short turn in a rope.