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nipper
noun- a baby or young child UK, 1859
- I remember my Grandpa. He used to come to the sea-side with us on holiday. When I was a nipper. — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 130, 1959
- Fancy a bloke usin’ toilet talk in front of his nippers!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Honey, could ya slide over a tad and raise the nipper up? — Raising Arizona, 1987
- I used to love climbing trees when I was a nipper[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 139, 2001
- The shop windows have not reflected his twenty-one years from toddler to nipper to snapper to bopper to man. — Mark Powell, Snap, p. 105, 2001
- a young lad employed to do menial tasks for a group of labourers AUSTRALIA, 1915
- — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 1, 1941
- They were compelled to employ a full-time “nipper” to clean amenities sheds and take and collect lunch orders. — West Australian, p. 9, 7 March 1992
- a sandfly BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 143, 1982
- in target shooting, a shot that just nicks a ring, scoring as if it had fallen within the ring US
- — American Speech, p. 194, October 1957: “Some colloquialisms of the handgunner”
- a railway brakeman US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 105, 1977
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