rapper

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• rap + -er