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nipper

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪpə(ɹ)/

The English word “nipper” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who, or that which, nips.
  2. Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
  3. A child.
  4. A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
  5. A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
  6. A mosquito.
  7. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
  8. A satirist.
  9. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  10. A fish, the cunner.
  11. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
  12. The claws of a crab or lobster.
  13. A young bluefish.
  14. A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
  15. One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
  16. One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.

verb

  1. To seize (two ropes) together.

Etymology

From nip + -er.

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