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Nip and tuck   /nɪp ənd tək/   Listen
Nip and tuck

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, lift, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty.






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"Nip and tuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... black, though fighting in a better cause, had not yet eaten his breakfast. So, when we come to weigh them fairly, it will be found that the advantages which each had over the other made the chances of war about nip and tuck between the black and ...
— Burl • Morrison Heady

... lonesome place he hears a horse a-coming behind him, and sees old Baldy Shepherdson a-linkin' after him with his gun in his hand and his white hair a-flying in the wind; and 'stead of jumping off and taking to the brush, Bud 'lowed he could out-run him; so they had it, nip and tuck, for five mile or more, the old man a-gaining all the time; so at last Bud seen it warn't any use, so he stopped and faced around so as to have the bullet holes in front, you know, and the old man he rode up and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Nip and tuck" :   plastic surgery, inconclusive, nose job, rhinoplasty, anaplasty, reconstructive surgery



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