Usually means: Projection on breast, delivers milk.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word nipple:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nipple: Merriam-Webster
  3. nipple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nipple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nipple: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nipple: Vocabulary.com
  7. nipple: Wordnik
  8. nipple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nipple, Nipple, Nipple: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. nipple: Wiktionary
  11. nipple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. nipple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. nipple: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. nipple: Dictionary.com
  15. nipple: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. nipple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Nipple (album), Nipple (disambiguation), Nipple (plumbing), Nipple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Nipple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. nipple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. nipple: Rhymezone
  21. nipple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. nipple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Nipple (for baby's bottle): American-Britih Dictionary
  24. nipple: FreeDictionary.org
  25. nipple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. nipple: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. nipple: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipple: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. nipple: Netlingo
  3. Nipple (plumbing), nipple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipple: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nipple: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nipple: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Nipple: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  8. nipple: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. nipple: Medical dictionary
  10. Nipple: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NIPPLE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nipple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Nipple: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Nipple: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  4. nipple: Master Mariner
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  7. NIPPLE: Power Engineering

(Note: See nippled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
noun:  The nipple (definition 1) and the areola together.
noun:  A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner.
noun:  An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants.
noun:  Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
noun:  Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
noun:  (plumbing, chiefly US) A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector.
noun:  (cycling) An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim.
noun:  (computing, humorous) A pointing stick.
verb:  (transitive) To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple.
verb:  (transitive) To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.

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