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nipple

[ nip-uhl ]

noun

  1. a protuberance of the mamma or breast where, in the female, the milk ducts discharge; teat.
  2. something resembling it, as the mouthpiece of a nursing bottle or pacifier.
  3. a short piece of pipe with threads on each end, used for joining valves.


nipple

/ ˈnɪpəl /

noun

  1. Also calledmamillapapillateat the small conical projection in the centre of the areola of each breast, which in women contains the outlet of the milk ducts mamillary
  2. something resembling a nipple in shape or function
  3. Also calledgrease nipple a small drilled bush, usually screwed into a bearing, through which grease is introduced
  4. an informal word for dummy


nipple

/ nĭpəl /

  1. A small projection near the center of the mammary gland. In females, the nipple contains the outlets of the milk ducts.


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  • nipple·less adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nipple1

1520–30; earlier neble, nib ( b ) le, nepil; perhaps akin to nib; compare Danish nip point; -le

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nipple1

C16: from earlier neble, nible, perhaps from neb , nib

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Example Sentences

But the Free the Nipple movement needs men, and the men of my generation are all for this cause.

But neither one translates on screen in Free the Nipple, which often feels like a well-produced student film.

I spoke to Allen, who had traveled down from Boston to support a Free The Nipple parade and to check out Boobie Trap.

Nipple also posted the rather regressive question “Did gender equality go to far?”

The initial responses to Nipple didn't seem to be so much about the app itself, as much as its terrible grammar.

It was the highest peak in the neighborhood of the coast, and was called the Nipple.

Saying this, I walked a few steps from the place where we were lying down, to see if there was any way of scaling the Nipple.

In one of his expeditions over Nipple Top he chanced upon the cave.

There were no flat, or Peento, peaches but a sort known as Venus's Nipple was seemingly a typical beaked peach.

Nipple-shields, with broad bases and openings, should always be obtained.

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