rapper
noun
Meaning
- One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
- A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
- A sword.
- A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
- A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
- A bold lie; a whopper.
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