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How to pronounce “nip”

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Pronunciation guide for nip

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of nip with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Sushant DivgikarYou're-- so we have to nip it in the bud.
Definition summary: To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

Example 1 of 8

Sushant Divgikar

You're-- so we have to nip it in the bud.

[Verb]
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To annoy, as by nipping.
To taunt.
(Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
(obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
[Noun]
A playful bite.
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Briskly cold weather.
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(nautical) A short turn in a rope.
(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.