EGAVE

rapper

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who, or that which, raps or knocks. The knocker of a door. 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.
  2. noun The knocker of a door.
  3. noun A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
  4. noun A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
  5. noun A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
    He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.
  6. noun A sword.
  7. noun A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

rap gangsta gangster spirit emcee master of ceremonies hitter kicker remapper eker

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Word family

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