Backarapper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backarapper is a noun meaning (West Midlands) A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
Meaning
(West Midlands) A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
Example Sentences
But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.
He would sink like an express lift and leap like a deer: at times he was almost flat on his back and when the hammer cracked he often appeared to be standing on his nose: like a backarapper he fizzed up and down and […]
It would have been so easy to remove these capricious intrusions of manner clashing with theme; so easy to afford quiet relief, as in the first half of the last chapter, instead of throwing in raillery like backarappers.
Word Forms
- backarappers
- backrapper
- back-rapper
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include banger, firework, gerb, firecracker, barrage, airbomb.
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