n. One who nips.n. A satirist.n. A thief; a pickpocket; a cutpurse.n. A boy who waits on a gang of navvies, to fetch them water, carry their tools to the smithy, etc.; also, a boy who goes about with and assists a costermonger.n. One of various tools or implements like pincers or tongs: generally in the plural. , , , , n. An incisor tooth; especially, one of the incisors or fore teeth of a horse.n. One of the great claws or chelæ of a crustacean, as a crab or lobster.n. Nautical, a short piece of rope or selvage used to bind the cable to the messenger in heaving up an anchor.n. A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.n. The cunner, Ctenolabrus adspersus: so called from the way in which it nips or nibbles the hook. Also nibbler. See cut under cunner.n. The young bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix; so called by fishermen because it bites or nips pieces out of the menhaden, in the schools of which it is often found.Nautical, to fasten two parts of (a rope) together, in order to prevent it from rendering; also, to fasten nippers to.n. A dram; nip.n. n. A local name in Australia of species of Alphæus, a genus of prawns.