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Definition of Tapper

1. Noun. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks.

2. Noun. A person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly. "Finger tappers irritated her"

3. Noun. A worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads.

4. Noun. Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire.

5. Noun. A dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes.

Definition of Tapper

1. n. The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.

Definition of Tapper

1. Noun. One who taps ¹

2. Noun. A tap-dancer ¹

3. Noun. A phone tapper or wiretapper ¹

4. Noun. (American English) A tapster ¹

5. Noun. (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer. ¹

6. Noun. (UK dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tapper

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

Medical Definition of Tapper

1. The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor). Synonym: tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapper

taplash taplashes tapless taplitumomab tapoa tafa tapotement tapotements tappa tappable tappas

tapped tapped out tappee tappees tappen tapper (current term) tappers tappester tappet tappet wrench

tappets tappice tappiced tappices tappicing tapping tapping up tappings tappit tappit hen

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