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back-rapper

back-rapper is the alternative form of backarapper.

Meaning of backarapper

Noun

backarapper (plural backarappers)

  1. (West-Midlands) A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
    • But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 27

Forms of back-rapper

pluralback-rappers

Questions about back-rapper

What is back-rapper the alternative form of?
Back-rapper is the alternative form of backarapper.

Words near back-rapper in the dictionary

  1. back-pocketing
  2. back-pockets
  3. back-pressure
  4. back-rank mate
  5. back-rank mates
  6. back-rapper
  7. back-rappers
  8. back-reef
  9. back-reference
  10. back-references
  11. back-rower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-rapper (page history and authors); backarapper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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