nipper
/ˈnɪpə
/noun
1 informal A child: I was force-fed vegetables as a nipper...
- There was a young nipper lying on the side of the road and the ambulance crew just picked him up and were away.
- Do those with nippers at private school seek an advantage?
- I used to go to Sherington school, just over the way, and there's no way that many kids were driven to school when I was a nipper.
2 (nippers) Pliers, pincers, or a similar tool for gripping or cutting: using a pair of nippers you can chip away at the tiles...
- To avoid damaging the face of the trim, pry nails out the back with locking pliers or nippers (end-cutting pliers).
- Remove the nails left in the molding from the backside (so you won't damage the face) using nippers or locking pliers.
- First, remove the nails left in the molding from the backside using nippers or locking pliers.
2.1 (usually nippers) The grasping claw of a crab or lobster.In others, they are intermediate in size and appear to function as pincers or nippers, as in other groups of mammals.
3An insect or other creature that nips or bites: mosquitoes must be some of the most voracious nippers ever created...
- The card his previous owner had filled out stated he was untrainable, not house broken, aggressive, a nipper and biter, and had been kept in the bathroom all day while owners worked, walked twice a day and lived in an apartment.
4Australian A burrowing marine prawn used as fishing bait. Also called yabby.
- Infraorder Thalassinidea, order Decapoda.
5Australian A junior lifeguard.
