rapper

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

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.
   • On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you...2023 September 5, Joe Coscarelli, “Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023
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.