nip and tuck
mainly USDefinition
› If a competition is nip and tuck, first one side seems to be winning and then the other, so that the result is not certain: It was nip and tuck as to who would win the playoffs.Competitions, and parts of competitions
(Definition of nip and tuck from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Competitions, & parts of competitions, but you might be interested in these topics from the Sports topic area:
- American football
- Athletics
- Baseball & rounders
- Basketball, netball & volleyball
- Bowls, bowling & croquet
- Competing in sport
- Competitors & participants in sports & games
- Cricket
- Exercising & training
- Fighting sports
- Football/soccer
- General terms used in ball sports
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Horse racing
- Horse riding
- Motor racing
- Parts & stages of competitions
- Refereeing & judging in sport
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing, yachting & canoeing
- Snooker, pool & billiards
- Specific sporting events
- Spectators & commentators at sports events
- Sports & games generally
- Sports venues
- Surfaces on which sports take place
- Swimming
- Target sports
- Tennis & racket sports
- Water sports
- Winners & losers
- Winning, losing & scoring in sport
- Winter Sports
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “nip and tuck”
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- beauty contest noun
- bout noun (SPORT)
- championship noun (COMPETITION)
- fixture noun (SPORTS EVENT)
- gala noun (SPORTS EVENT)
- invitational noun
- knockout noun (COMPETITION)
- match noun (COMPETITION)
- meet noun
- on your marks, get set, go! idiom
- pageant noun
- preseason adjective
- preseason noun
- return match noun
- round robin noun (COMPETITION)
- season noun
- testimonial match noun
- tournament noun
- track meet noun
- winning post noun
Word of the Day
throw caution to the wind/winds
to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
