"nip up" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is used as a colloquialism for quickly running up or away somewhere. For example, "I nipped up the stairs to fetch my book."
No wonder Emanuel doesn't fancy it, if he's the sort of chap who likes to nip up Mount Kilimanjaro.
Taking on multiple roles, Southerland's cast nip up and down the social ladder (from stokers and Irish immigrants to toffs and aristos) with extraordinary aplomb.
The car isn't hers, it's a friend's (she still catches the bus when she wants to nip up to Tesco), but she answers the door.
If you want to see how beer is made, nip up to The Loddon Brewery in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, and the Watermill at Mapleduram House is the oldest working watermill in the country.
Yet, if you nip up the Victoria line to the Unison HQ at Euston, you'll hear Dave Prentis, the Unison general secretary, advocate a bright, simple alternative: an end to cuts, and rising salaries in the public sector.
Like Cooper and Miliband and Osborne and Clegg and all the other MPs who base themselves in the leafier bits of London and nip up to their constituencies for their surgeries?
I'll keep you updated when I can (although I'm nipping up for lunch now).
I nipped up from the table to consult "Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2009" (published September 1, £9.99, Mitchell Beazley, octopusbooks.co.uk).co.uk
"Silvestre said he was beaten five furlongs out … but when they quickened, she nipped up the inside and just kept going and went clear.
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The following Monday, the price of the decentralized electronic currency bitcoin rose from forty-five to fifty-five donlars on the major exchanges, and by Wednesday it had nipped up to sixty-five dollars.
