2syllables
nipper
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Definitions ofnipper
1noun
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- A child.
- A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- A mosquito.
- One of four foreteeth in a horse.
- A satirist.
- A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
- A fish, the cunner.
- A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- A young bluefish.
- A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
1verb
- To seize (two ropes) together.
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