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Nip Off

Definition: Nip Off

Nip Off

Verb

1. Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Nip Off

Synonyms: clip (v), nip (v), snip (v), snip off (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Nip Off

Language Translations for "nip off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut away, cut off, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, sever, shear, slice off, snip off, take off), отщипвам (pinch off), отчеквам (break off, pinch, pinch off), изрязвам (cut out, excise, incise, scissor, sink). (various references)

   

French

  

se sauver, filer. (various references)

   

German

  

davonsausen, abzwicken, abknicken (deviate, snap off, to snap off, veer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meglép (slip by, to abscond, to absquatulate, to bundle off, to bundle out, to bunk off, to bust out, to clear out, to cut one's stick, to decamp, to do a bunk, to do a get, to do a shift, to effect one's escape, to get out of the rain, to hop the stick, to hop the twig, to jink, to make off, to make one's getaway, to make tracks, to nip off, to nip out, to skedaddle, to slip away, to slip by, to sting one's hook, to take a powder, to take french leave, to take the back track, to tommy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

摘み取る (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), 剪み切る (to clip, to nip off, to snip, to trim off). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つまみとる (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), つみとる (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), はさみきる (to clip, to nip off, to snip, to snip off, to trim off). (various references)

   

Manx

  

spolgey (chip off, chipping, nip, peck, pinch), ming, goll roish (antecede, betake, buzz off, clear out, go ahead, go before, go off, make away, move on, pass on, pop off, precede, walk away). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipnay offay

   

Thai

  

เล็ม (nibble, snick), รีบออก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıvışmak (decamp, do a bunk, duck, fade, flee, get away, hook it, light out, make off, make tracks, scram, sheer off, shift away, sidle away, skedaddle, skin out, skip it, slide, slink off, sneak out of, take french leave, take wing), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip, pare, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim, truncate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Nip Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-i-n-o-p"

-2 letters: fino, foin, info, pion.

-3 letters: fin, fon, fop, iff, ion, nip, off, pin, poi.

-4 letters: if, in, no, of, on, op, pi.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-i-n-o-p"
 

+1 letter: pontiff, spinoff.

 

+2 letters: offprint, pontiffs, spinoffs.

 

+3 letters: offprints, offspring.

 

+4 letters: offprinted, offsprings, proffering.

 

+5 letters: offprinting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nip Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 70      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01110000 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#112 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0070      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4875822497272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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