tapper

Meanings

Plural: tappers

Noun

• a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
• a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
  • "finger tappers irritated her"
• a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
• someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
• a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
• One who makes a tapping noise.
• A tap-dancer.
• A phone tapper or wiretapper.
• A weakly hit ground ball.
• In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
• The lesser spotted woodpecker.
• A tapster.
• An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.

Synonyms

phone tapper, tap dancer, tapster, wiretapper