tapper
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tapper (plural tappers)
- One who makes a tapping noise.
- 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]
- 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- A tap-dancer.
- A phone tapper or wiretapper.
- (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
- (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
- (Britain, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
- (US) A tapster.
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tapper
- indefinite plural of tap
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tapper
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tapper
- Alternative form of taper