Nip"per (?), n. 1.
One who, or that which, nips.
2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are
four in number.
3. A satirist. [Obs.]
Ascham.
4. A pickpocket; a young or petty
thief. [Old Cant]
5. (Zoöl.) (a)
The cunner. (b) A European crab
(Polybius Henslowii).