Definition of nipper Nipper
/nɪˈpɚ/ - [niper] - nip•per
We found 21 definitions of nipper from 5 different sources.
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| nipper - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" | ||
| child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling | ||
| juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed | ||
| child's body the body of a human child | ||
| bairn a child: son or daughter | ||
| buster a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster" | ||
| changeling a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | ||
| child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy" | ||
| foster-child, foster child, fosterling a child who is raised by foster parents | ||
| scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag one who is playfully mischievous | ||
| kiddy a young child | ||
| orphan a young animal without a mother | ||
| peanut pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | ||
| picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | ||
| poster child a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" | ||
| kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | ||
| silly a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" | ||
| sprog a child | ||
| bambino, toddler, tot, yearling a young child | ||
| urchin poor and often mischievous city child | ||
| nipper - a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | ||
| claw, chela, pincer | ||
| appendage, extremity, member a part that is joined to something larger | ||
| crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | ||
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Wiktionary 
- nipper (Noun)
One who, or that which, nips. - nipper (Noun)
Any of various devices as pincers for nipping. - nipper (Noun)
A child. - nipper (Noun)
A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. - nipper (Noun)
A mosquito. - nipper (Noun)
One of four foreteeth in a horse. - nipper (Noun)
A satirist. - nipper (Noun)
A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. - nipper (Noun)
A fish, the cunner. - nipper (Noun)
A European crab Polybius henslowii. - nipper (Noun)
The claws of a crab or lobster.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- nipper (n.)
One who, or that which, nips. - nipper (n.)
A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. - nipper (n.)
A satirist. - nipper (n.)
A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. - nipper (n.)
The cunner. - nipper (n.)
A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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nipper
The armourer's pincers or tongs. Also, a hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.
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🔤- nipper, noun, singular of nippers.
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