Usually means: Critique small, often insignificant details.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. nitpick: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nitpick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitpick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nitpick: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nitpick, nitpick: Wordnik
  6. nitpick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. nitpick: Wiktionary
  8. nitpick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nitpick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nitpick: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nitpick: Dictionary.com
  12. Nitpick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nitpick: Rhymezone
  14. nitpick: Free Dictionary
  15. nitpick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. nitpick: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. nitpick: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nitpicked as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
verb:  (archaic, literal) To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.

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