nippers
noun
- 1
One who, or that which, nips.
- 2
(usually in the plural) 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.
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