nipper

Noun

 * 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) * 2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension
 * SLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or 'nippers', as they were more commonly known.
 * 1) * 2009, Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts: A Brit 's Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under
 * Every club around Australia offers a Nippers programme. Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old
 * 1) * October 6, 2011,
 * The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment
 * 1) * September 5, 2013, Eve Jeffery, "Nippers season begins on the north coast", in Echonetdaily 
 * Of our movement’s 153,000 members, over 58,500 are nippers (5-13 years). This equates to nearly 40% of our total membership and shows just how significant the junior movement is within surf lifesaving.
 * 1)  A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
 * 2)  A mosquito.
 * 3)  One of four foreteeth in a horse.
 * 4)  A satirist.
 * 5)  A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
 * 6) A fish, the cunner.
 * 7)  A European crab.
 * 8) The claws of a crab or lobster.
 * 9) A young bluefish.
 * 10)  A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
 * 11) One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
 * 12)  One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
 * 1) The claws of a crab or lobster.
 * 2) A young bluefish.
 * 3)  A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
 * 4) One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
 * 5)  One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
 * 1)  One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:pickpocket

Translations

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 * Maori: karekata
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Verb

 * 1)  To seize (two ropes) together.