nipper
IPA: nˈɪpɝ
noun
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- (slang) A child.
- (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
- (archaic) One of four foreteeth in a horse.
- (obsolete) A satirist.
- (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
- A fish, the cunner.
- (archaic) A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- A young bluefish.
- (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
- (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
- A surname.
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.
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Examples of "nipper" in Sentences
- Nathan had a hobby as a wee little nipper.
- Aggie has some unexpected good news for Nipper.
- See also Tipsy Nipper Fairey Aviation of Canada.
- All walking on tippytoes to avoid the belly nipper.
- Also Nipper is a Mexican system of payment via cell phone.
- Palmer carries Nipper off the field in the midst of gunfire.
- Al Nipper managed to use it periodically throughout his career.
- The artwork for the album was designed by the band and Zack Nipper.
- Preferably the gripping means and nipper means are mounted on a carriage.
- On the day of the shooting, the pigeons are released, and Nipper is wounded.
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