in the nip

in the nip

Naked. Primarily heard in Ireland. You may love fashion now, but as a kid you wanted nothing to do with clothes and were always running around in the nip!
See also: nip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in the nip

naked. Irish informal
See also: nip
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • in the nude
  • nude
  • as naked as the day (one) was born
  • jaybird
  • naked
  • naked as a jaybird
  • (as) naked as a jaybird
  • buck naked
  • tick
  • nip in the air
References in periodicals archive
The first Dublin Dip In The Nip took place at 7.30am yesterday at Shelley Banks Beach in South Dublin in aid of ARC Cancer Support.
CHEEKY Z GIRLS Some of the women who bared all for Dip In The Nip in Dublin yesterday
The company also says that the chillers can reduce film temperatures by as much as 10[degrees]C, prevent sag at unwind and also eliminate wrinkles in the nip assembly.
Real-time roller adjustments for parallelism can then be made quickly and conveniently while the sensors are in the nip.
Now the youth with age 28 will be able to participate in the NIP. The committee met here at the Parliament House to get a briefing on National Internship Programme (NIP), Youth Exchange Programme and others youth related issues.
In the nip the polymer is pressed against the substrate and simultaneously cooled by the chill roll.
Grooving provides knuckles of high pressure, thought to aid in the transfer of water from the sheet to the felt under the action of the pressure in the nip. Just as the suction roll provides a shorter path for the water to go before it reaches an area of no or low pressure, grooving of that suction roll will shorten those water transfer paths even more.
E-nip software analyzes the data received from the sensors in the nip and displays the measurement values in a variety of graphical formats for easy interpretation.
Some of the companies that have a three roll vertical calender feel they cannot feed a ribbon as it would have no way of staying in the nip, as gravity would cause it to fall.
For those than can handle it on the run, even this method loses its effectiveness if the water is removed in the nip and not at the uhle boxes.
In this study, we measured the effect of temperature and moisture content on the behavior of paper in the nip of a calender.
Earlier fundamental work on transverse flow in the nip of a roll press intuitively predicted similar intervals in the press nip.
Slitting is a "crushing" action in the nip between the slitter blade and the anvil surface.
The Weavexx team relied upon dwell time in the nip vs.
Having the same pressure in the nips allows us to increase stiffness, but maintain the same gloss and smoothness levels."