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nippers
noun- the female breasts US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 162, 1968
- the teeth US
- The nippers; I lost ‘em. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 219, 1965
- thickly knit gloves with no fingers CANADA
- “Guess we’ll haul back,” said Jim at last, slipping a pair of woollen “nippers” over his hands and standing up in the bow of the dory. — Frederick Wallace, Roving Fisherman, p. 48, 1955
- — Kendall Merriam, The Illustrated Dictionary of Lobstering, p. 62, 1978
- any cutting tool US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 145, 1950
- a special pair of pliers that can grasp the key from the other side of the door US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 810, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
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