(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.
Satirist
Definition:
(n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
(2) This is too much pressure, too much burden on the satirist.
(3) Everyone was watching it,” recalls Bassem Youssef , the Cairo surgeon turned satirist who helmed the show.
(4) Another of his friends, the satirist Craig Brown , once described him as moving in a world without friction, as if never having known heartbreak.
(5) It was the first such publication in post-revolutionary Iran, maintaining its dominance for more than two decades after its debut, adding monthly and annual editions as well as producing a new generation of satirists and cartoonists.
(6) Besides Carr, the panel included US anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado, US author and satirist PJ O’Rourke, international security analyst Lydia Khalil, and US defence and politics analyst Crispin Rovere.
(7) It’s hate speech.” Bassem Youssef, a former Egyptian talk show host, satirist and popular comedian, criticized Trump on Twitter .
(8) He could laugh at himself in the style of the most sophisticated political satirist, and move on to threaten thunder and revolution from the rostrum.
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(10) It is not clear if Morsi himself took umbrage or whether his entourage has given instructions to silence the satirist – or at least remind him of the line not to cross.
(11) Burmese satirist Zarganar was recently freed after almost three years in jail for the heinous crime of speaking to foreign media about the devastating effects of a cyclone.
(12) Labour's candidate, the satirist and author John O'Farrell, called on the BBC to leave a seat empty where Hutchings would have sat rather than fill it with a substitute.
(13) The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef , has ended his show because he feels it is no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
(14) His approval ratings are even lower than his morals, and the satirist Stephen Colbert (playing himself) is ridiculing Underwood’s “America Works” plan to increase jobs but reduce welfare benefits.
(15) Egypt’s most popular satirist, Bassem Youssef, has joined the Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F Kennedy School of Government as a resident fellow for the spring semester, eight months after winding up his TV show because he felt it was no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
(16) A consummate journalist, scintillating satirist and unrivalled chronicler of modern life and so much more.
(17) He was a film producer, satirist, television pioneer, theatre director, raconteur, wit and public speaker of boundless brio and enthusiasm.
(18) The great American satirist PJ O’Rourke was standing next to me, so I congratulated him on stumbling upon an auto-parodic British scene.
(19) Like all satirists, he assumed that humans should behave compassionately and morally.
(20) The satirists were completely disregarded as news producers continued to make ever more melodramatic, repetitive and graphically absurd programmes.