nippers

noun

  1. 1

    One who, or that which, nips.

  2. 2

    (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.

  3. 3

    A child.

  4. 4

    A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.

  5. 5

    A boy working as a navvies' assistant.

  6. 6

    A mosquito.

  7. 7

    One of four foreteeth in a horse.

  8. 8

    A satirist.

  9. 9

    A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

  10. 10

    A fish, the cunner.

  11. 11

    A European crab (Polybius henslowii).

  12. 12

    The claws of a crab or lobster.

  13. 13

    A young bluefish.

  14. 14

    A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

  15. 15

    One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.

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