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nip and tuck

Word definitions for nip and tuck in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nip and tuck may refer to: Nip and tuck (cosmetic surgery) , colloquialism for rhytidectomy , a cosmetic surgery to smooth facial wrinkles Nip and Tuck, Kentucky , former name of Artemus, a census-designated place in the U.S. state of Kentucky Nip/Tuck ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) so evenly matched that the advantage shifts from one to the other, and the outcome is uncertain adv. 1 With the advantage changing hands. 2 (context dated English) With perceived advantage shifting back and forth among the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition; "as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck"; "the election was a nip and tuck affair" [syn: neck and neck , head-to-head ] n. plastic surgery to ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nip \Nip\, n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. A pinch with the nails or teeth. A small cut, or a cutting off the end. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. A biting sarcasm; a taunt. ...

Usage examples of nip and tuck.

He considered using a portion of his imagined advance for the book for a little nip and tuck, and a regenerative stay in some posh spa.

Then it was head down and heels in, nip and tuck for our lives through the Zulu-infested night with the fiends howling at our heels, and suddenly Moran was yelling and making for a burning building dead ahead, with all hell breaking loose around it, Zulus by the hundred and shots blazing, and there was nothing for it but to follow as he went careering through scrub and bushes, putting his beast to a stone wall, and then a barricade where black bodies and red coats were hacking and slashing in the fire-glare, bayonet against assegai, and my screw took the wall but baulked .

Say, we're going to have it nip and tuck here to save the village.

March when most of the snow had gone and Nip and Tuck had returned.

This morning, when my mother mentioned she wanted to have a little nip and tuck, I tried to convince her she didn't need it.

I dare say Surprise could do so on her own, though it might be nip and tuck.