rapper
noun/ˈɹæpɚ/
Etymology From rap + -er.
9 senses
- 1The knocker of a door.
- 2A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
- 3A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive…
- 4A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any…
- 5A sword.
- 6A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at…
- 7A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device…
- 8A bold lie; a whopper.
- 9A loud oath.
› One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
The knocker of a door.
Business, Mining Historical A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
- He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.
- On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you can’t kill a ghost.”2023 September 5, Joe Coscarelli, “Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023:
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.
Colloquial, Dated A bold lie; a whopper.
Colloquial, Dated A loud oath.
- Derived terms
- backarapper, backpack rapper, back-rapper, battle rapper, crapper, rapper sword, raptivist