Unnipped

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not having been nipped. not-comparable

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + nipped.

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