flipper vs nipper

flipper

noun
  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

nipper

noun
  • The claws of a crab or lobster. 

  • A child. 

  • Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. 

  • A European crab (Polybius henslowii). 

  • A young bluefish. 

  • One who, or that which, nips. 

  • A boy working as a navvies' assistant. 

  • A fish, the cunner. 

  • One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs. 

  • A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. 

  • One of four foreteeth in a horse. 

  • A mosquito. 

verb
  • To seize (two ropes) together. 

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