nipper

Plural: nippers

Noun

• One that nips; a young child; a tool for nipping.
• a young person of either sex
• a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
• One who, or that which, nips.
• 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.
• One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.

Verb

• To seize (two ropes) together.

Examples

• He used a ’NIPPER’ strategy, placing short words to block bingos.

Synonyms

chela, child, claw, fry, kid, minor, nestling, pincer, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster, pickpocket