Zapper vs Rapper - What's the difference?
zapper | rapper |
(colloquial) A remote control for a television.
A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
(figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
* 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
* 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
A performer of rap music.
A sword.
A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for .
A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
As nouns the difference between zapper and rapper
is that zapper is (colloquial) a remote control for a television while rapper is rapper (performer of rap music).zapper
English
Noun
(en noun)- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .