nip

You can almost hear Trump burping out “Nip it. Nip it. Nip it in the bud,” like a corpulent toad with the face and voice of Deputy Fife.

Over the years, they appeared in many documentaries and talk shows, as well as in an episode of the FX medical drama “Nip/Tuck.”

As a parting gift he handed me a small box of Nips.

Initially, MacGowan played punk, singing with the Nips until they flamed out early in the 1980s.

That is the unifying, unassailable Ryan Murphy signature: an insistent style dating back to "Nip/Tuck," and probably before that, although I never saw the set of "Popular."