rapper

• rappuh

From rap + -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæpɚ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: wrapper
• Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)

rapper (plural rappers)

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
   1. The knocker of a door.
   2. (historical, mining) 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.
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.

• RepRap

rapper c (singular definite rapperen, plural indefinite rappere)

1. rapper (practitioner of rap music)

rapper

1. present of rappe

rapper

1. present of rappe

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑpər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rap‧per
• Rhymes: -ɑpər

rapper

1. comparative degree of rap

From English rapper. By surface analysis, rappen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛpər/ or as in English

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rap‧per

rapper m (plural rappers, diminutive rappertje n)

1. rapper (performer of rap music)

From English rap +‎ -er.

• raper

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pe/

• Audio:

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rapper

1. (music) to speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music

Borrowed from English rapper.

• rappeur (more common)

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pœʁ/

rapper m (plural rappers)

1. (music) rapper

rapper m or f by sense (plural rappers)

1. rapper (hip-hop performer)

• “rapper”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rapper”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English rapper.

rapper m (plural rapperi)

1. rapper

• ráper

Unadapted borrowing from English rapper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrapeɾ/ [ˈra.peɾ]
• Rhymes: -apeɾ

rapper m or f by sense (plural rappers)

1. rapper (hip-hop performer)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.