Backarapper

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other. West-Midlands

    "But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps."

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"But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps."

Etymology

Properly, backrapper, from back + rapper. From the dialect of Warwickshire in the Midlands of England. Compare backrackets.

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