Meaning

9 senses
  1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.

    The knocker of a door.

  2. (historical)A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.

  3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.

  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.

    Rapper, Rapperin

    рэ́перrɛ́per, рэ́пперrɛ́pper

    someone who performs rap music

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

  6. 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.

  7. (colloquial, dated)A bold lie; a whopper.

  8. (colloquial, dated)A loud oath.

  9. (Scotland, obsolete)A sword.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom is a rapper.

    Том грає реп.

    ruТом - рэпер.

    deTom ist ein Rapper.

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  2. Are you a rapper?

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  3. Who's your favorite female rapper?

    deWer ist deine Lieblingsrapperin?

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  4. Tom is a good rapper.

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  5. Sami wants to be a rapper.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
performer of rap music, or one who raps:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
performer of rap music, or one who raps:

Forms

plural: rappers
Singularrapper
Pluralrappers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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