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nipple

ˈnɪpəl
WordNet
Interesting fact
It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.
  1. (n) nipple
    a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
  2. (n) nipple
    the small projection of a mammary gland
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."
  1. Nipple
    (Mech) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
  2. Nipple
    The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
  3. Nipple
    (Anat) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats or nipples, usually twelve.
  1. (n) nipple
    A protuberance of the breast where, in the female, the galactophorous ducts discharge; a pap; a teat.
  2. (n) nipple
    The papilla by which any animal secretion is discharged.
  3. (n) nipple
    Anything that projects like a nipple, as the projecting piece in a gun or a cartridge upon which the percussion-cap is placed to be struck by the hammer, the mouthpiece of a nursing-bottle, a nipple-shield, etc.
  4. (n) nipple
    A reducing-coupling for hose or for joining a hose to a pipe. It is often threaded or grooved on the outside to facilitate the making of a tight joint by means of a wire binding, compressing the hose into the indentations.
  5. (n) nipple
    A hollow piece projecting from and forming a passage connecting with the interior of a metal pipe, used for the attachment of a faucet or cock.
  6. nipple
    To furnish with a nipple or nipples; cover with nipple-like protuberances.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple
  1. (n) Nipple
    nip′l the pap by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females: a teat: a small projection with an orifice, as the nipple of a gun
  2. (v.t) Nipple
    to furnish with a nipple
Quotations
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
Richard Dreyfuss
Bernardo Bertolucci
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
Dilys Laing
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Formerly neble, a dim. of neb,. See Neb Nib

Usage in the news

Where To See 3-D Nipple Tattoos. aberdeennews.com

Who knew Neil Patrick Harris had a nipple piercing. usmagazine.com

Julie Bowen talks broken Emmy and nipple covers. latimes.com

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker was a guest on French show Canal + and was asked to flash his nipples in support of Middleton and like a good sport, he did. blog.mysanantonio.com

The biggest story from the second episode of Dancing with the Stars wasn't any of the celebrities' hot moves or Chaz Bono 's low score, but the dramatic revealing of Nancy Grace 's nipple . radaronline.com

Spandex to Nipple Suits to Kevlar: The Evolution of Superhero Movie Fashion. theatlantic.com

Stimulating the nipples , as in breast-feeding, releases the hormone oxytocin. cbsnews.com

The only thing that I might worry about is that sometimes people with third nipples have heart problems. oprah.com

Not since Rudi Gernreich's monokini have exposed nipples caused such a fashion scandal. elle.com

At the recent London Fashion Week, 32-year-old British designer Rachel Freire showed a dress made of 3,000 cow and yak nipples —part of her spring-summer 2012 "Nippleocalypse" collection—and met with harsh criticism. elle.com

Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems announces a new combination-style nipple for its Full Function ABS. bulktransporter.com

Last March, Kyle Dubois, 18, put an alligator clamp on one of his nipples , with a classmate placing the clamp on his other nipple , while a third classmate plugged the cord into the wall. nydailynews.com

But no one cares if Roger Daltrey's nipples are glimpsed. fwweekly.com

Forget The Nipple , Join 21st Century. fwweekly.com

Rihanna sartorially acknowledged our nation's independence day by sticking silver stars over her nipples , topped only by a blazer that displayed them pretty clearly. nymag.com

Usage in scientific papers

Note that what appears to be a nipple is, in fact, a duct system leading to the nipple, so that the estimators correctly follow the skin line.
Confidence Regions for Means of Random Sets using Oriented Distance Functions

Usage in literature

Even the nipples showed. "Greener Than You Think" by Ward Moore

You were too busy showing Jim how to unscrew the nipples of his gun, and perhaps did not even hear what I was saying. "Tom Gerrard 1904" by Louis Becke

The cap snapped on the nipple! "A Boy's Voyage Round the World" by The Son of Samuel Smiles

The heart's pulsations could be felt distinctly under the right nipple. "Surgical Anatomy" by Joseph Maclise

Nipples should be boiled twice a week. "Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts" by Girl Scouts

His fingertips stroked her nipple lightly, but she ignored the tingle of pleasure. "The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea

At Nipple Peaks he could rest, attend to his wound. "Rimrock Trail" by J. Allan Dunn

She's not clutterin' at the nipple. "The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He began to rub her breast with the palm of his hand, feeling the nipple get bigger and harder. "Shaman" by Robert Shea

The valve at the back of the torch regulates the gasolene supply that passes through the nipple. "Boys' Book of Model Boats" by Raymond Francis Yates

Usage in poetry
The Bacchanalia of the sap now reigns!
Priapic fires burn yonder bough with blooms!
Lo, goat-songs warbled from the vineyard fanes!
Lo, Venus-nipples in the apple-glooms!
By the rose-flesh mushrooms, undivulged
Last evening—-nay, in to-day's first dew
Yon sudden coral nipple bulged,
Where a freaked fawn-coloured flaky crew
Of toadstools peep indulged.
You see me as always, my hand on the lock,
The cap on the nipple, the hammer full cock;
It is rusty, some tell me; I heed not the scoff;
It is battered and bruised, but it always goes off!
His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple,
Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feels;
Through his frail nerves her own deep languor’s ripple
Like a broad river sighing through the reeds.
And oh the April, April of straight soft hair,
Falling smooth as the mountain water and brown;
The April of little leaves unblinded,
Of rosy nipples and innocence
And the blue languor of weary eyelids.
(Death instrumental,
Splitting the long eye open, and the spiral turnkey,
Your corkscrew grave centred in navel and nipple,
The neck of the nostril,
Under the mask and the ether, they making bloody
The tray of knives, the antiseptic funeral;