Definitions for nippers

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nippers nip·per

Spelling: [nip-er]

IPA: /ˈnɪp ər/

Nippers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in nippers (einpprs).

Definitions for nippers

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 nippers

First recorded in 1525-35; nip¹ + -er¹

Examples for nippers

Once more he had recourse to his nippers, and speedily the door was opened.

Also, the cable is brought-to when fastened to the messenger by nippers.

Bluenoses have no use for nippers, as Britishers call apprentices.

D—n my heart, if you clap your nippers on me, till I know wherefore!

To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.

They must go hand in hand manacled to the end, let the nippers gall as they will.

The surging or slipping of the cable when the nippers do not hold.

Boy—Keep the nippers on 'em, Casey, or they'll muss up the shop!

A policeman came in from the street and put the nippers on him.

When the cutters attempted to ply their nippers they fell in their tracks, electrocuted.