back-rapper

English

Noun

back-rapper (plural back-rappers)

1. Alternative form of backarapper
   • 1860 July 24, Robert Cellem, Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the British North American Provinces and United States in the Year 1860, Toronto: Henry Rowsell, published 1861, page 39:

     Very few houses were lighted up, in consequence of a protest of the Insurance Companies. But the people contented themselves with parading the streets, and with seeing what was to be seen. As on the previous evening, the juvenile portion of the population indulged themselves ad libitum in the use of crackers, back-rappers, serpents, and squibs. How so many got into Newfoundland is a problem no one I have questioned is able to solve.

   • 1945, Jeffery Farnol, The Piping Times:

     How I used to plague him! Once I pinned a back-rapper to his coat-tail! Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have been!

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