tapper (English, noun)
expansion: tapper (plural tappers)
Senses:
glosses: One who makes a tapping noise.
glosses: A tap-dancer.
glosses: A wiretapper.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weakly hit ground ball.
tags: slang
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
glosses: In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
glosses: The lesser spotted woodpecker.
tags: British
dialectal
glosses: A tapster.
tags: US
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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:
form: tappers
tags: plural