back-rapper

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Very few houses were lighted up, in consequence of a protest⟳ of the Insurance Companies. But the people contented themselves with parading the streets, and with seeing what was to be seen. As on the previous evening, the juvenile portion of the population indulged themselves ad libitum in the use⟳ of crackers, back-rappers, serpents, and squibs. How so many got into Newfoundland is a problem no one I have⟳ questioned is able to solve⟳.”

“How I used to plague him! Once I pinned a back-rapper to his coat-tail! Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have⟳ been!”

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