Definition of "whippersnapper" []

• A person regarded as insignificant and pretentious. (noun)

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• "Is some 84 year old entrenched congressman going to substancially change his lifestyle and voting record because of some young whippersnapper is elected president?"
• "A whippersnapper was a whip that was all coiled up and if you flipped your wrist it would"
• "When I spell-checked this post, it didn't recognize "whippersnapper" and, and as an alternative recommended "hyperkinetic.""