Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who raps or knocks; specifically, a spirit-rapper.
- noun The knocker of a door.
- noun In coal-mining, a lever with a hammer attached at one end, placed at the mouth of a shaft or incline for giving signals to the banksman, by rapping on an iron plate.
- noun An extravagant oath or lie; a “whopper.” See
to rap out , under rap, transitive verb
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
- noun Slang A forcible oath or lie.
- noun A musician specializing in
rap music .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
- noun A performer of
rap music - noun A forcible oath or lie.
- noun obsolete: Scottish English word for "sword."
- noun A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
- 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
- noun someone who performs rap music
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Whether I'm a rapper, trapper, slapper, whatever, I'm still gonna do what I do, but, I don't know, something about the term rapper ….
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As a Mexican-American emcee ladies and gentleman, I transcend far beyond the title rapper this has to be one of the most offesive comments I’ve ever read.
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They ended up finding out they had more in common than anyone would have expected between a 40-year-old rapper from the Brooklyn projects and the 80-year-old sage of compounded returns.
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She even confirms her interest in rapper Flo Rida.
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They ended up finding out they had more in common than anyone would have expected between a 40-year-old rapper from the Brooklyn projects and the 80-year-old sage of compounded returns.
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And with Lil Wayne, it's not just an act: The rapper is currently serving a one-year term on Rikers Island after being caught in New York with drugs and guns stashed in his Louis Vuitton overnighter.
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"As long as the average rapper is coming out of communities where those kinds of problems are commonplace, it's just a natural sort of thing," he says.
The rap sheet's sad toll -- Today's hip-hop stars can no longer go to jail without missing a beat
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She even confirms her interest in rapper Flo Rida.
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"As long as the average rapper is coming out of communities where those kinds of problems are commonplace, it's just a natural sort of thing," he says.
Rappers like T.I. and Lil Wayne can't go to jail without missing a beat
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She even confirms her interest in rapper Flo Rida.
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