loose vs nip

loose

verb
  • To make less tight, to loosen. 

  • Of a grip or hold, to let go. 

  • To shoot (an arrow). 

  • To let loose, to free from restraints. 

  • To unfasten, to loosen. 

noun
  • All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs). 

  • The release of an arrow. 

  • A letting go; discharge. 

  • Freedom from restraint. 

intj
  • begin shooting; release your arrows 

adj
  • Not compact. 

  • Not fitting closely 

  • Relaxed. 

  • Indiscreet. 

  • Not held or packaged together. 

  • Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate. 

  • Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game. 

  • Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. 

  • Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood). 

  • Not under control. 

  • Having oversteer. 

nip

verb
  • To squeeze or pinch. 

  • To annoy, as by nipping. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words loose and nip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )