Usually means: Small tool for cutting nails.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nipper: Merriam-Webster
  3. nipper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nipper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nipper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nipper: Vocabulary.com
  7. nipper: Wordnik
  8. nipper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nipper, nipper: Wiktionary
  10. nipper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nipper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nipper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nipper: Dictionary.com
  14. Nipper (comics), Nipper (disambiguation), Nipper (tool), Nipper, The Nipper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nipper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nipper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nipper: Rhymezone
  18. nipper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. nipper: FreeDictionary.org
  20. nipper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nipper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. nipper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nipper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipper: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nipper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NIPPER, NIPPER, NIPPER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nipper (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. nipper, nipper, nipper, nipper, nipper, Nipper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. nipper: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. nipper, nipper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Nipper: Latitude Mexico
  3. Nipper: Stay Sharp
  4. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See nippering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who, or that which, nips.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
noun:  (British, informal) A child.
noun:  (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
noun:  (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
noun:  (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
noun:  (archaic) One of four foreteeth in a horse.
noun:  (obsolete) A satirist.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
noun:  A fish, the cunner.
noun:  (archaic) A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
noun:  The claws of a crab or lobster.
noun:  A young bluefish.
noun:  (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
noun:  One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
noun:  (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.
noun:  A surname.

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