nipper

nip·per  (npr) n. 1. A tool, such as pliers or pincers, used for squeezing or nipping. Often used in the plural. 2. A pincerlike part, such as the large claw of a crustacean. 3. Chiefly British A small boy.

nipper

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nipper [ˈnɪpə]

n

1. a person or thing that nips

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the large pincer-like claw of a lobster, crab, or similar crustacean

3. Informal a small child

4. Austral a type of small prawn used as bait

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	nipper - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" kid, minor, child, tiddler, youngster, tike, nestling, shaver, small fry, tyke, fry child's body - the body of a human child juvenile, juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed bairn - a child: son or daughter buster - a robust child 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 child who has lost both parents peanut - a young child who is small for his age 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, yearling, tot - a young child urchin - poor and often mischievous city child street child, waif - a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"
	2.	nipper - a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods chela, pincer, claw crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton appendage, extremity, member - an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm"

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nipper

noun

1. (Informal) child, girl, boy, baby, kid (informal), infant, tot, little one, sprog (slang), munchkin (informal, chiefly U.S.), rug rat (slang), littlie (Austral. informal), ankle-biter (Austral. slang) I couldn't have been much more than a nipper when you last saw me.

2. pincer, claw Just inside the ragworm's mouth is a sharp, powerful pair of nippers.

Translations

nipper [ˈnɪpəʳ] N (Brit) → chiquillo/a m/f

nipper

n

(Zool) → Schere f, → Zange f

(Brit inf: = child) → Steppke m (inf)

nipper [ˈnɪpə] n (Brit) (fam) → bambino/a