Nipping

I left my pen in the dorm. I'm just nipping back to get it.

I wished Mr. Bluff a "Merry Christmas," and hurried homeward through the cold and nipping air.

She thinks the specter of a long-dead pet might be responsible for the nipping at people’s feet.

I'm just nipping to the toilet.

I'm just nipping over to the supermarket. Shall I get you anything?

Being, however, satisfied as to the position, I withdrew my hand, the pains still growing less frequent and weaker, but she lamented greatly the nippings and pinchings in her belly, which rather increased as the true labour pains decreased.

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.

Elephants may seem clumsy, but they not only are highly sophisticated in courtship, with large repertoires of provocative gestures, proddings, nippings and subtle erotic teasings with the trunk, but sometimes they complete actual copulation within 18 seconds.