See nipper on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 55:",
"text": "Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?",
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"ref": "2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "No, this is not a creche: nippers should not be running around, fighting under the pool table or generally creating havoc (this applies to dogs, too).",
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"text": "2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension\nSLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or 'nippers', as they were more commonly known."
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"ref": "2008, Tania Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice:",
"text": "It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers' (novice surf life-savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.",
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"text": "2009, Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts: A Brit 's Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under\nEvery club around Australia offers a Nippers programme. Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old […]"
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"ref": "October 6, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20120321105500/http://sls.com.au/content/nipper-numbers-exceed-60000",
"text": "The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment"
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"text": "September 5, 2013, Eve Jeffery, \"Nippers season begins on the north coast\", in Echonetdaily\nOf our movement’s 153,000 members, over 58,500 are nippers (5-13 years). This equates to nearly 40% of our total membership and shows just how significant the junior movement is within surf lifesaving."
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"ref": "a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:",
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"text": "Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?",
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"ref": "2008, Tania Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice:",
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"sense": "slang term for a small child",
"word": "pinza"
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