NIPPLES

"NIPPLES" is a plural of: nipple.

Date "NIPPLES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Specialty Definition: NIPPLES

Domain	Definition
Health	The conic organs which usually give outlet to milk from the mammary glands. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: NIPPLES

English words defined with "NIPPLES": Mammillated ♦ nipple shield, Nipplewort ♦ pasties, Polythelism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NIPPLES": EUPHORBIA HIRTA ♦ final inspector, FINISHING INSPECTOR ♦ I'll pinch your nipples. ♦ METER INSPECTOR, Milk Ejection ♦ NEON-TUBE PUMPER, Nipple prints ♦ return-line corrosion tester ♦ TURBINE SUBASSEMBLER ♦ wheel assembler, WHEEL LACER AND TRUER, wheel truer. (references)

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Modern Usage: NIPPLES

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yeah, thank God, 'cause my nipples were killing me. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) They don't use that when they pierce your nipples, do they? (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) For Christmas my mom makes gingerbread men with little raisin nipples. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) It's a familiar dance, monkey nipples, they both know it. (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman) I'm sorry, Jack. Sexual harassment? Starring the guy that asked his coworker at Starbucks if he had 2 nipples for a dime? (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)
Movie/TV Titles	Nipples (1973)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: NIPPLES

Domain	Title
Books	Tropic of Nipples (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Nipples [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Soft Shells - Inverted Nipples (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: NIPPLES

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Alexander Graham Bell with Sir Wilfred Grenfel examining the nipples of one of his twin-bearing multi-nipple sheep at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Spoken Usage: NIPPLES

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Completely overlooks the threat posed by people with a parachute around their nipples and a lemon zester dangling from their Adam's apples.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NIPPLES

"NIPPLES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.89% of the time. "NIPPLES" is used about 225 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	96.89%	218	20,478
Lexical Verb (-s form)	2.67%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	0.44%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	225	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NIPPLES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
nipples	10,892	long hard nipples	90
puffy nipples	2,357	dark nipples	89
big nipples	1,807	tiny nipples	87
long nipples	1,013	free nipples	87
erect nipples	851	oversized erect nipples	87
hard nipples	786	pink nipples	87
pierced nipples	576	pointy nipples	84
large nipples	566	hairy nipples	79
huge nipples	495	sore nipples	78
inverted nipples	289	oversized nipples	78
perky nipples	178	flex nipples	73
giant nipples	154	male nipples	73
teen nipples	139	celebrity nipples	67
small nipples	131	big puffy nipples	65
free puffy nipples	112	sexy nipples	64
lactating nipples	108	sucking nipples	64
abnormal nipples	106	nice nipples	62
long erect nipples	95	man nipples	60
breast nipples	94	swollen nipples	59
black nipples	93	tit nipples	59
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NIPPLES

Language		Translations for "NIPPLES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		intermamillærafstand (breadth of nipples, intermamillary distance), brystvorteafstand (breadth of nipples, intermamillary distance). (various references)

French		distance bi-mamélonnaire (breadth of nipples), diamètre bi-mamélonnaire (breadth of nipples). (various references)

German		Brustwarzen (teats). (various references)

Greek		απόσταση θηλών μαστών (breadth of nipples, intermamillary distance). (various references)

Pig Latin		ipplesnay

Spanish		pezones. (various references)

Swedish		nipplar. (various references)

Turkish		memeler (boobs, breasts, knockers). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: NIPPLES

Misspellings
	"NIPPLES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kipple, mipples, neapolis, nepalis, nimple, niple, nippel, nippels, Nippies, nippled, Nu-plex, Unioplus, Uniplus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NIPPLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lippens.
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-p-p-s"
	-1 letter: lippen, nipple, pensil, pepsin, spinel, spline.
	-2 letters: lenis, liens, lines, peins, penis, piles, pines, pipes, plies, slipe, snipe, speil, spiel, spile, spine.
	-3 letters: isle, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, lipe, lips, lisp, nils, nips, pein, pens, peps, pies, pile, pine, pins, pipe, pips, plie, sine, sipe, slip, snip, spin.
	-4 letters: els, ens, ins.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-p-p-s"
	+2 letters: panoplies, pieplants, pipelines, pulpiness, shlepping, zeppelins.
	+3 letters: appliances, floppiness, lagniappes, peneplains, pimpernels, pineapples, piperonals, principles, scaloppine, schlepping, septupling, sloppiness, suppletion, suppliance.
	+4 letters: dispeopling, flippancies, pentaploids, plainspoken, planisphere, polyphonies, pulpinesses, resupplying, scaloppines, suppletions, suppliances.
	+5 letters: antiepilepsy, appellations, floppinesses, gallinippers, inappeasable, inappositely, lipoproteins, overslipping, pilocarpines, planispheres, planispheric, prelapsarian, sideslipping, slipperiness, sloppinesses.
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