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tapper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From tap + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who makes a tapping noise.
    • A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in[…] 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
  2. A tap-dancer.
  3. A wiretapper.
  4. (slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
  5. In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
  6. (UK, dialectal) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
  7. (US) A tapster.
  8. An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.

Forms

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Deriveds

hypertapper · toe-tapper wheeltapper · rubber tapper · toe tapper · till-tapper · wheel-tapper