nipper
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When they were back at the same ground six years later to the day on Monday, a nipper of a third Test against India to win, the pace bowler did not realise the significance.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
My family recently got a new puppy, a strong-willed and mouthy but ultimately lovable little nipper.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2021
Then she snipped away part of the hoof wall with a nipper.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015
As Charlie, Jack Costello is proficient but looks too sleek and pipes too politely for a nipper on the edge of starvation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2013
Well, when you have done with the nipper, the question comes, what can he do?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
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