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rapper

  • /ˈɹæpɚ/

Sounds like wrapper · Rhymes with -æpə(ɹ)

noun rappers · rappuh

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: rap, gangsta, gangster, spirit, emcee, hitter, kicker, remapper, eker, slammer, rocker, twitterer, sneaker, capturer, freestylist, resampler

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noun performer of rap music, or one who raps

Españolrapero, rapera
한국어래퍼 raepeo
日本語ラッパー rappa
Kiswahilirepa
Portuguêsrapper
Françaisrappeur, rappeuse
DeutschRapper, Rapperin
Ελληνικάράπερ ráper
Русскийрэ́пер rɛ́per, рэ́ппер rɛ́pper
العربيةرابر rābar

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@misc{rapper_2026,
  title = {rapper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rapper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}