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Meanings of have a nip in English

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Usage of have a nip in English
1
It's not as though you were not going to have a nip with us.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
2
I didn't have a nip of sherry, you old coot.
Love overboard
3
Ray, will you have a nip before you try it?
Marion's Faith.
4
If you say so we will have a nip of cold tea and a bite-
The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
5
Would have froze to death if I didn't have a nip once in a while.
Three to get deadly and four to score
6
Come, North, we'll have a nip before you start.
For the Term of His Natural Life
7
It's good to have a nip or two in the spring, to make you feel alive.
Old Peter's Russian Tales
8
I must have a nip of brandy, too.
Jess
9
Come in and have a nip, Macklewain.
For the Term of His Natural Life
10
He was accustomed, when asked to have refreshment, to request that his two men should have a nip also.
Looking Seaward Again
11
Why, he was so pleased he asked me to have a nip of that gin he keeps under his bed!
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
12
We'll just toddle down to Tomlinson's at the cross-roads, and have a nip and a quiet game of old sledge at Jacksey's expense.
Openings in the Old Trail
13
Occasionally, if Patrick had a nip of whisky, he liked to talk.
Into the Water
14
The jacket has a nipped-in waistband for a sharp silhouette.
The Irish Times
15
Had a nip or two of the good stuff, I won't lie to you.
The lonely polygamist: a novel
16
What say to going up,-nowthat the coast is clear,-andhaving a nip or two?
Quill's Window
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