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Nipple

part of the breast

The nipple is a raised region of tissue on the surface of the breast from which, in lactating females, milk from the mammary gland leaves the body through the lactiferous ducts to nurse an infant. The milk can flow through the nipple passively, or it can be ejected by smooth muscle contractions that occur along with the ductal system. The nipple is surrounded by the areola, which is often a darker colour than the surrounding skin.

Have ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white?
—Robert Herrick

Male mammals also have nipples but without the same level of function or prominence. A nipple is often called a teat when referring to non-humans. "Nipple" or "teat" can also be used to describe the flexible mouthpiece of a baby bottle.

In humans, the nipples of both males and females can be sexually stimulated as part of sexual arousal. In many cultures, female nipples are sexualized, or regarded as sex objects and evaluated in terms of their physical characteristics and sex appeal. Some cultures have little to no sexualization of the nipple, and going topless presents no barrier.

My brains are going out my nipples. —Gina Barberi

Quotes

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  • Chris: Why are your nipples poking into me?!
    Meg: Sorry! That happens when I'm cold.
    Chris: But why are there three of them?!
    Meg: There aren't! Two of them are moles.
    Chris: Those numbers still don't add up!
  • Oh, yes. Just had me a little nubbin-ectomy. Yep. Two nipples, no waiting.
  • Frank: I want to see her nipples.
    Censor Lady: But this is a Christmas show.
    Frank: Well, I'm sure Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples!
    Carpenter: You can barely see them nipples.
    Frank: See? And these guys are really looking!
    • Scrooged (1988 film), written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue
  • Have ye beheld (with much delight)
    A red rose peeping through a white?
    Or else a cherry, double grac’d,
    Within a lily centre plac’d?
    Or ever mark’d the pretty beam
    A strawberry shows half-drown’d in cream?
    Or seen rich rubies blushing through
    A pure smooth pearl and orient too?
    So like to this, nay all the rest,
    Is each neat niplet of her breast.
    • Robert Herrick, "Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast", Hesperides (1648)
  • Ladies, shut up and hold on to your nipples!
  • The eyes are the nipples of the face.
  • And even when we were at my grandmother's funeral when you told most of my relatives that you could see her nipples through her burial dress, I let it slide.
    • Mallrats (1995 film), written and directed by Kevin Smith
  • Hannibal Lecter: Tell me, Senator: did you nurse Catherine yourself? ...
    Senator Ruth Martin: Yes, I did.
    Hannibal Lecter: Toughened your nipples, didn't it?
 
They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which Boris Yeltsin cuts off his own arms and legs. —Thom Yorke
  • The video has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which Boris Yeltsin cuts off his own arms and legs.
    • Thom Yorke, about censorship of the music video for "Paranoid Android", as quoted in James Wignall, "Sound and Vision", The Guardian (11 October 2007)
  • You're excited? Feel these nipples!
    • BASEketball (1998 film), written by David Zucker, Robert LoCash, Jeff Wright

See also

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  •   Encyclopedic article on Nipple on Wikipedia
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