1. nipper(n = noun.person) child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has parts: child's body
has particulars: bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, kiddy, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler, silly, sprog, bambino, toddler, tot, yearling, urchin, street child, waif
2. nipper(n = noun.animal) chela, claw, pincer - a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods;
is a kind of appendage, extremity, member
is a part of crustacean
Derived form verb nip1
1. One who, or that which, nips. [1913 Webster]
2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. [1913 Webster]
3. A satirist. Ascham. [1913 Webster]
4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [1913 Webster]
5. The cunner. [1913 Webster]
nipper, n.
1 a person or thing that nips.
2 the claw of a crab, lobster, etc.
3 Brit. colloq. a young child.
4 (in pl.) any tool for gripping or cutting, e.g. forceps or pincers.