What's the difference between nipper and ripper?

Nipper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, nips.
  • (n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
  • (n.) A satirist.
  • (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • (n.) The cunner.
  • (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I meet Jean-Pierre (who is 63) and Luc (a mere nipper at 60) in a hotel in Paris, it is a few weeks before this year’s festival, where their latest picture, Two Days, One Night , will compete – though ultimately fail – to win a record-breaking third.
  • (2) According to Indigenous belief, Mick Rhatigan, a former policeman and linesman, and his two Aboriginal workers, Joe Wynn and Nipper, attacked the camp of another black man, Hopples, and shot dead eight occupants.
  • (3) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
  • (4) According to this version, Wynn and Nipper attacked, using Rhatigan’s guns and horses, but without his knowledge.
  • (5) When prime minister Tony Blair refused to go on the programme, Liddle archly pointed out that the programme, despite 40 requests, had interviewed Tony Blair as often as "we've interviewed Osama bin Laden, Lord Lucan, and Nipper the skateboarding duck".
  • (6) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
  • (7) Rhatigan was released because he was found not to be involved, while an initial murder charge against Nipper was dropped when Aboriginal witnesses disappeared.
  • (8) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
  • (9) The 90-year-old retailer, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, has been hammered by the recession as well as online and supermarket competition.
  • (10) As the reaction to HMV's demise has shown, the brand, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, still holds a cachet for many people.
  • (11) "It really is the end of an era," said Leonard "Nipper" Read, the Scotland Yard detective who successfully pursued the robbers.
  • (12) Bruce Reynolds often pondered on this and would remark how “Nipper” Read, the dogged detective who tracked down the Great Train Robbers, told them he reckoned they would have done it even if they had known they were going to get caught.
  • (13) On the other hand, as "Nipper" Read [the detective who was part of the team that investigated the robbery] said about us, perhaps they would have carried it out even if they had known that they would get caught.
  • (14) And if one of your nippers was his pupil, I think you would feel the same.
  • (15) It was taken advantage of this situation to remove the larvae with a pair of nippers.
  • (16) And he referred to Nipper Read's reflection that, perhaps, the Great Train Robbers would have carried out the robbery even if they had known that they were going to get caught.
  • (17) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
  • (18) Newly-erupted human third molars were fractured buccolingually with heavy-gauge industrial nippers or sectioned mesiodistally with a Leitz saw microtome and fixed in glutaraldehyde.
  • (19) 2.19pm BST Before Prince George was born, my colleague Josh Halliday wandered around London asking people if they recognised royal babies of the past and what they felt the new nipper should be called.
  • (20) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.

Ripper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
  • (n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
  • (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include the moors murderer Ian Brady; the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; Rosemary West; and Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of murdering Milly Dowler.
  • (2) Like Jack the Ripper, the killer who is his closest comparison, it was as if he was invisible.
  • (3) The Guardian has previously identified other suspected targets of Rees, including Eric Clapton , Mick Jagger, George Michael, Linford Christie, Gary Lineker, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, and the family of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
  • (4) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
  • (5) Lukas Podolski was the fringe player who grasped the opportunity most clearly and the opening goal was one of his trademarks – a left-footer ripper into the near, top corner of Sinan Bolat’s net, following Ramsey’s burst and pass.
  • (6) West Australian Labor shadow cabinet calls for Stephen Smith's withdrawal Read more The 48-year-old was elected to the leadership following the resignation of Eric Ripper in January 2012 and led the party to the 2013 election, scoring points with policies like Metronet , a $3.8b plan to expand the suburban rail network, before ultimately losing to Colin Barnett.
  • (7) They mix fact and fiction, delving into child murders and police corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry, the Silver Jubilee and the political tensions of the early Thatcher years.
  • (8) And it is not the first time that Amazon has looked to the BBC – the internet firm resurrected BBC1’s period crime drama, Ripper Street, after it was axed.
  • (9) It also revealed that the TV star had offered his services as an "intermediary" in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
  • (10) Ripper Street was axed by BBC1 after last year's second series, but won a reprieve after Amazon stepped in to fund a third run, which will premiere on its Prime Instant video-on-demand service before a BBC1 repeat.
  • (11) Sonia Sutcliffe v News of the World, 1990 The wife of the Yorkshire Ripper lost her libel claim over News of the World allegations that she had an affair with a Greek holiday company chief who resembled her husband During the hearing, Carman claimed she had courted the press for financial gain before listing the £334,000 damages she had obtained in actions against newspapers.
  • (12) A trawl of police records also found that Savile had offered his services as an "intermediary" to detectives in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
  • (13) A BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC is looking at partnerships that could enable Ripper Street to return but at better value to licence fee payers."
  • (14) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fisher ladies in Okinawa, Japan You can almost see such calculations running through the Big Ripper as she pores over her MRI results, designed to find out whether her organs are ageing at the same rate as the rest of her.
  • (16) I don’t think anybody in the area is against enterprise and somebody doing something new and exciting, but Jack the Ripper has nothing to do with Cable Street.
  • (17) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .
  • (18) I don’t want to have to explain to my teenage daughter that this man butchered women and ripped out their wombs.” Palmer-Edgecumbe told the Evening Standard that he planned to open a museum about the social history of women, but that as the project developed he decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
  • (19) Before long, Jean Paul Goude will have dismembered more women than Jack the Ripper.
  • (20) In 1992 his 10-piece graduate collection – bought in its entirety by Vogue stylist Isabella Blow, his first patron – was entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, inspired by Victorian London and with a strong emphasis on tailoring.