Meaning of backarapper | Babel Free

Definitions

A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.

West-Midlands

Examples

“But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.”

“He would sink⟳ like⟳ an express⟳ lift⟳ and leap⟳ like⟳ a deer: at times he was almost flat on his back and when the hammer⟳ cracked he often appeared to be standing on his nose: like⟳ a backarapper he fizzed up and down and […]”

“It would have⟳ been so easy to remove⟳ these capricious intrusions of manner clashing with theme; so easy to afford⟳ quiet relief, as in the first half of the last⟳ chapter, instead of throwing in raillery like⟳ backarappers.”

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