Definitions for tapper

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tapper tap·per

Spelling: [tap-er]

IPA: /ˈtæp ər/

Tapper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in tapper (aepprt).

Definitions for tapper

noun

1. a person or thing that taps or strikes lightly.
2. a telegraph key.
3. a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
4. a person who cuts screw threads into the surface of a circular opening, as of a pipe, nut, etc.

Origin of tapper

First recorded in 1800-10; tap¹ + -er¹

Examples for tapper

When jokes started veering towards the Holocaust, tapper was quick to wag his finger, as might seem appropriate.

Answering tapper's question, “Under what conditions would you agree to return to the U.S.?”

Then, suddenly, came the sharp click of the “tapper” as it struck the “coherer.”

The narrow strips are then placed in a bag or basket carried by the tapper.

Suddenly there sounded the sharp click of the tapper as it struck the coherer.

He was asked what was his trade, and replied that he was a tapper.

"I do hope Mrs. tapper will look after him," said the matron.

At first, all our attention is taken up by watching how the one tapper does his work.

He almost had them believing in the Space Wave tapper before he was through.

Says tapper: “I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.”