Word Study
nip and tuck
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nip and tuck has 1 sense
- nip and tuck(n = noun.act) cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, lift, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty - plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift" has particulars: nose job, rhinoplasty
is a kind of anaplasty, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery
Adjective nip and tuck has 1 sense
- nip and tuck(s = adj.all) head-to-head, neck and neck - 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"
Adverbial nip and tuck has 1 sense
- nip and tuck(r = adv.all) head-to-head, neck and neck - even or close in a race or competition or comparison; "the horses ran neck and neck"; "he won nip and tuck"
THESAURUS
nip and tuck
alike, at par, au pair, commensurate, drawn, equal, equalized, even, even stephen, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, knotted, level, like, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, par, proportionate, quits, square, stalemated, tied
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