Usually means: Young, energetic, and presumptuously confident.
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  1. whippersnapper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whippersnapper: Merriam-Webster
  3. whippersnapper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whippersnapper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whippersnapper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whippersnapper: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whippersnapper, whippersnapper: Wordnik
  8. whippersnapper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whippersnapper: Wiktionary
  10. whippersnapper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whippersnapper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whippersnapper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whippersnapper: Dictionary.com
  14. whippersnapper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Whippersnapper (band), Whippersnapper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whippersnapper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whippersnapper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whippersnapper: Rhymezone
  19. Whippersnapper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whippersnapper: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whippersnapper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Whippersnapper: The Word Detective
  23. whippersnapper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. whippersnapper: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whippersnapper: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whippersnapper: A Word A Day
  2. whippersnapper: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (colloquial) A young and cheeky or presumptuous person; often with a connotation of ignorance via inexperience.

Similar:
lightweight, jackanapes, whipper-snapper, whipper snapper, squirt, snip, snipper-snapper, whipster, bugger, skipper, more...

Opposite:
old-timer, veteran

Adjectives:
young, little, mere, damned, underfed, hideous, impertinent, contemptible


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Similar:
lightweight, jackanapes, whipper-snapper, whipper snapper, squirt, snip, snipper-snapper, whipster, bugger, skipper, more...

Opposite:
old-timer, veteran

Adjectives:
young, little, mere, damned, underfed, hideous, impertinent, contemptible



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