rapper

Plural: rappers

Noun

• A person who performs rap music; one who raps.
• someone who performs rap music
• a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
• One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
• The knocker of a door.
• One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
• A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
• One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
• A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
• 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.

Examples

• He proudly played RAPPER, celebrating the genre’s influence on language.
• He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.

Synonyms

doorknocker, knocker

Related Words

RAP