unnipped
unnipped adjective: not having been nipped.
Adjective
unnipped (not comparable)
- Not having been nipped.
- Tickets are supposed to be nipped when passengers enter a platform, and if this could always be done the fraud could hardly take place; but the suburban rush is so great that the nipping of all tickets is impossible and a large number of unnipped tickets are always collected at destination.1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779
Origin of unnipped
From un- + nipped.
Questions about unnipped
- What does unnipped mean?
- Unnipped means not having been nipped.
- What part of speech is unnipped?
- Unnipped is an adjective.
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