barrack vs nip

barrack

verb
  • To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means. 

  • To cheer for or support a team. 

  • To house military personnel; to quarter. 

  • To live in barracks. 

noun
  • A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes. 

  • Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building. 

  • A police station. 

  • A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. 

  • A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings. 

nip

verb
  • To annoy, as by nipping. 

  • To squeeze or pinch. 

  • To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip. 

  • To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. 

  • 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 taunt. 

  • To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold. 

  • To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. 

noun
  • A hamburger. 

  • A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum. 

  • Briskly cold weather. 

  • A playful bite. 

  • A small cut, or a cutting off the end. 

  • A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor. 

  • A nipple, usually of a woman. 

  • A pinch with the nails or teeth. 

  • A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching 

  • A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. 

  • A short turn in a rope. 

  • The place of intersection where one roll touches another 

  • A biting sarcasm; a taunt. 

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