Clipper vs Nipper - What's the difference?
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Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
# (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
# (informal) An Alberta clipper.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
One who, or that which, nips.
(usually, in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
(slang) A child.
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(AU) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
* The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment. [http://sls.com.au/content/nipper-numbers-exceed-60000]
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*:"Every club around Australia offers a Nippers' programme. ' Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old and not only is it a fun way for your child to .."
(Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
One of four foreteeth in a horse.
(obsolete) A satirist.
(obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
A fish, the cunner.
A European crab (Polybius henslowii ).
The claws of a crab or lobster.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between clipper and nipper
is that clipper is anything that clips while nipper is one who, or that which, nips.clipper
English
Noun
(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
Derived terms
* (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipperSee also
* Clipper chipAnagrams
* ----nipper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?
- 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.[http://www.sls.com.au/nippers]
- 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.
- It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers' (novice surf life- savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.
- (Ascham)