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- Nipper - n. - One who, or that which, nips.
- Nipper - n. - A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
- Nipper - n. - A satirist.
- Nipper - n. - A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
- Nipper - n. - The cunner.
- Nipper - n. - A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
- Nipperkin - n. - A small cup.
- Nippers - n. pl. - Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
- Nippers - n. pl. - A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
- Nippers - n. pl. - A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.