Definition of "rapper" in English

noun

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.

2. (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.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A sword.

4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.

5. 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.

6. (colloquial, dated) A bold lie; a whopper.

7. (colloquial, dated) A loud oath.