nipper

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, nips.
2. Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
3. A child.
4. A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
5. A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
6. A mosquito.
7. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
8. A satirist.
9. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
10. A fish, the cunner.
11. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
12. The claws of a crab or lobster.

1. To seize (two ropes) together.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From nip + -er.