SIPS
Similar to its counterpart - the apertif - which stimulates appetite, this drink stimulates digestion.
What is a digestif?
Nepetalactone, found in this feline treat, causes them get “high” for about 10-20 minutes when inhaled or ingested.
What is catnip?
Also known as mushroom cut, this simple haircut is where the front hair is cut with a straight fringe and the rest of the hair is left longer, the same length all the way around.
What is a bowl cut?
A whippersnapper.
What is a pipsqueak?
Before sugar was widely available, this common root vegetable was often used as a food sweetener.
What is a parsnip?
The special ingredient in a Manhattan (or Martini) that can make it sweet, dry, or "perfect".
What is vermouth?
Oysters can be served fresh, stewed (with eponymous crackers), fried, steamed, or baked/broiled with butter and breadcrumbs, known as this.
What is Rockefeller?
A programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text.
What is a snippet?
Charles Dicken's novel, whose protagonist and narrator is Pip.
What is Great Expectations?
You can taste the bitter difference between this other root vegetable and a parsnip when you take a nip of it!
What is a turnip?
Served in a coupe glass, this is a cocktail featuring cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice; or just simply attached to a coupe.
What is a sidecar?
What are the munchies?
What is a vasotomy?
Lead singer of Atlanta's R&B group: the Pips!
Who is Gladys Knight?
The 1977 Golden Glob and Peabody Award-winning miniseries in which LeVar Burton plays Kunta Kinte.
What is Roots?
While in the UK it is 25ml, in Austrailia it is 30ml, and in France it is 40ml (!!!), in the US it is 1oz.
What is a shot?
To stop something at an early stage.
What is a "nip in the bud"?
Weird Al's 10th studio album, or a 2006 comedy-drama with Alec Baldwin as a supporting actor.
What is Running with Scissors?
Speaking of the Pips, this song won a grammy in 1973, or garnered a lot of locomotion commotion, so to speak.
What is "Midnight Train to Georgia"?
A mineral of atomic number 19, of which parsnips are a good source?
What is potassium?
A double of this is 3 liters. A Jeroboam holds 4.5 liters, an Imperial holds 6, Salmanazar holds 9, Balthazar holds 12, Nebuchadnezzar holds 15 liters and Melchior holds 18 liters.
What is a Magnum?
A synonym for (noun) "nip" that equates to 1/8 of an ounce.
What is a dram?
One of two - along with Snips - unintelligent trouble-making unicorn colts in My Little Pony.
Who is Snails?
A percentage in point (a.k.a. PIP) or price interest point (a.k.a PIP) is the smallest whole unit price that this can move.
What is a foreign exchange rate?
The love of money (or greed, in general)
What is the root of all evil?