I don't think I know a single person that actually uses the word "nips" to denote female anatomy. I wonder if the NIPS renaming debate goes back to a misunderstanding, where women assume that men secretly use that word to talk about them, and men assume that other, bad men do?
However, I am not a native English speaker, and it may well be that everyone around me hides their embarrassing slang words from me (and Google trends). So please let me know, do you use the word?
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it is very clear what nips means. more of a high school / frat joke. google image search agrees:pic.twitter.com/IdyDjRRcwF
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Look at the google trends graph. It seems to be so rare that only a small minority has it in their active vocabulary.
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Popularized by Seinfeld, early 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pick
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When I first saw this outrage bus being boarded, I presumed it was due to the term being a racial slur. (Which I haven't heard, thankfully, since my childhood.)
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The usage was unknown and opaque to me. I'll go out on a limb and assert it's not used for anything anatomical in the UK where a nip in the air is what we experience for much of the year.
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No, your assessment is spot-on. If anything, it should not be used because it was an offensive slang term used to reference Japanese people around WWII. (Nippon).
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Based on all the answers I got, it's complicated.
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