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rapper

noun

Meaning

  1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
  2. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
  3. A sword.
  4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
  5. 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.
  6. A bold lie; a whopper.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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