Rapper

Definitions

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
2. The knocker of a door.
3. A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
   historical
4. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
5. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
6. A sword.
   Scotland, obsolete
7. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
8. 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.
9. A bold lie; a whopper.
   colloquial, dated
10. A loud oath.
    colloquial, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“He rose from the ghetto to become⟳ a successful rapper.”

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