rapper

noun

1. 1

   One who, or that which, raps or knocks. The knocker of a door.

2. 2

   historicalOne who, or that which, raps or knocks. A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.

3. 3

   One who, or that which, raps or knocks. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.

4. 4

   A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

   He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.

   On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you can’t kill a ghost.”

5. 5

   obsoleteA sword.

6. 6

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

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   datedA bold lie; a whopper.

9. 9

   datedA loud oath.

Forms

plural

rappers