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View synonyms for nippers

nippers

/ ˈnɪpəz /

plural noun

  1. an instrument or tool, such as a pair of pliers, for snipping, pinching, or squeezing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Then, grandpaw, he turns round to the baby again, plumb took up with them four new nippers.

His companion, as if to look at him with a due appreciation of this, stopped swinging the nippers and put them on.

Seeking Nippers, I came upon him haltingly reading my diary aloud to an amused circle of cattlemen, in his quarters aft.

He took a pair of nippers an' ketched holt an' pulled out a big shirtin' needle.

This machine consists essentially of a series of rollers, nippers, and rows of metal teeth.

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