nipper

IPA: nˈɪpɝ

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.

Examples of "nipper" in Sentences

What does he consider a big 'nipper'? ")" come up to Pine Camp.
"nipper-tipping" -- the word "nipper," like that other n-word, being a racial slur.
I am still front line and you know when a nipper is in danger and you know when to act.
Mr. Beale begged of all likely foot-passengers, but he noted that the "nipper" no longer "stuck it on."
But as a trainee, or "nipper", gardener back in 1963, flowerpot man Alan almost quit to fit carpets instead.
The practice has a name -- "nipper-tipping" -- the word "nipper," like that other n-word, being a racial slur.
The term nipper tipping is a combination of the WWII epithet for the Japanese and the childish prank of tipping sleeping cows.
The connotations are what's important here, though; "nipper" implies a child who's small enough and quick enough to "nip" -- to dart nimbly to and fro, here and there, like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist or Shakespeare's Puck.