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Definition of Rapper

1. Noun. Someone who performs rap music.

2. Noun. A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.

Definition of Rapper

1. n. One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.

Definition of Rapper

1. Noun. One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. ¹

2. Noun. A performer of rap music ¹

3. Noun. A forcible oath or lie. ¹

4. Noun. ''obsolete:'' Scottish English word for "sword." ¹

5. Noun. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing. ¹

6. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rapper

1. one that raps [n -S] - See also: raps

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapper

rappas rapped rappee rappees rappel rappeled rappeler rappelers rappeling rappelled

rappeller rappellers rappelling rappels rappen rapper (current term) rappers rapping rappings rappini

rappoldite rapport rapporteur rapporteurs rapports rapprochement rapprochements raps rapscallion rapscallionly

Literary usage of Rapper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1854)
"The Spirit-rapper; an Autobiography. By OA BROWN- SON. Boston : Little, Brown, & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 402. THESE four hundred and two pages prove nothing and ..."

2. Spirit Rapping Unveiled!: An Exposé of the Origin, History, Theology and by Hiram Mattison (1855)
"Number of spirit spheres—Distances—Spirit homes—Intercourse just opened, and yet opened ages ago—Deceptions exposed by u rapper—Tom Paine contradicting ..."

3. Spirit Rapping Unveiled!: An Exposé of the Origin, History, Theology and by Hiram Mattison (1855)
"Number of spirit spheres—Distances—Spirit homes—Intercourse just opened, and yet opened ages ago—Deceptions exposed by a rapper—Tom Paine contradicting ..."

4. Spirit Rapping Unveiled!: An Exposé of the Origin, History, Theology and by Hiram Mattison (1855)
"Number of spirit spheres—Distances—Spirit homes—Intercourse just opened, and yet opened agoa ago—Deceptions exposed by a rapper—Tom Paine contradicting ..."

5. The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (1780)
"faid my Uncle Toby — but, as he articulated the word, the minute expired, and Trim let fall the rapper. My Uncle Toby perceiving that all hopes of a ..."

6. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"... is not to knock with a rapper on a door, or ring the house- bell ; nor, if he has married a widow, is he to co-habit with her on that day. ..."

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