Definitions for nipper

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nipper nip·per

Spelling: [nip-er]

IPA: /ˈnɪp ər/

Nipper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in nipper (einppr).

Definitions for nipper

noun

1. a person or thing that nips.
2. Usually, nippers. a device for nipping, as pincers or forceps.
3. one of the two large claws of a crustacean.
4. Metalworking. dog (def 13).
5. nippers, Older Slang. handcuffs.
6. Informal. a small boy. Chiefly British. a costermonger's helper or assistant.
7. Nautical. a short rope for seizing an anchor cable to a messenger from a capstan.

Origin of nipper

First recorded in 1525-35; nip¹ + -er¹

Examples for nipper

Mr. nipper, the boatswain, sir, the last shot has cut him in two.

I learnt to swim when I was a little bit of a nipper and went with the boys at school.

"Blessed if I ever see such a nipper," he said, over and over again.

Hear him laffin' fit to bust when I told him nipper was dead!

An' don't fink that I was fergettin' the nipper—'cos I wasn't.

You speak as if it were some one I knew, yet you wrote me that nipper Crewe died.

Rest easy a spell, nipper, and I'll rest too, and listen how he does that.

Why, when I was a nipper every morning of my life I had a cold bath, winter and summer.

Why, we've been—not to say pals, nipper, but we sat side by each for a matter of a year.

Dyou think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper?