noun
- a large mosquito, especially one that bites painfully
Usage: informal; chiefly U.S. Southern and Midwestern dialects
Examples
- A gallinipper bit me on the arm during the camping trip.
- The swamp was full of gallinippers that made the evening unbearable.
- She swatted at a gallinipper buzzing around her head.
- Those gallinippers left welts all over my legs.
- The locals warned us about the gallinippers near the lake at dusk.