noun
- a young person who is presumptuous or impertinent
Usage: informal; often used by older people
Examples
- The old man called the teenager a whippersnapper for talking back.
- That young whippersnapper thinks he knows everything about business.
- Don’t let some whippersnapper tell you how to do your job.
- The elderly woman dismissed the critic as just another whippersnapper.
- He may be a whippersnapper, but his ideas are actually quite good.
- The boss grew tired of the whippersnapper’s constant interruptions.