What's the difference between dapper and rapper?

Dapper


Definition:

  • (a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is what happened this week, when another web campaign persuaded ITV2 that its relationship with a fellow by the name of Dapper Laughs was no longer worth it.
  • (2) The performer, real name Daniel O’Reilly, posted a Christmas message on YouTube proclaiming that “Dapper’s Back”.
  • (3) If she cries, she’s just playing hard to get.”) A petition for the removal of his show Dapper Laughs: On the Pull on ITV2 having gathered 63,000 names, the series was cancelled last Monday.
  • (4) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
  • (5) Broadcasters are scouring the world of internet video bloggers – vloggers – in the hope of finding the next big thing, and Dapper (real name Daniel O’Reilly) was touted as one of the first to be given his own TV series .
  • (6) Although the big tour dates have been canned, according to a spokesman from the agency Coalition which says it acts as “live booking agent for Dapper Laughs”, the comedian is “still going ahead with club shows”.
  • (7) Luciano Liggio, boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra until the mid-70s, was photographed sticking out his lower jaw like Don Vito, while Gotti, known as the Dapper Don, assumed the style wholesale.
  • (8) MK For the most part he wears civilian clothes, and I wanted him to be pretty dapper.
  • (9) I felt blessed ITV2 had even given me a first series,” O’Reilly told Newsnight last week , saying Dapper Laughs was “gone”.
  • (10) A dapper gentleman, apparently in his 50s, dressed in a dark suit, a tie and a homburg hat, he didn't stand out among the traditionally dressed men of the Garden, many of whom are orthodox Jews.
  • (11) He was insouciant, dapper, elegant, somehow intensely English – though O'Toole himself was an Irishman and proud of it – and also outrageously sexy.
  • (12) Klitschko's ominous shadow soon dwarfs thoughts of Norton's dapper look.
  • (13) Formerly chief foreign policy adviser to prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the dapper professor dubbed the "Turkish Kissinger" has energetically pursued the ruling AKP party's trademark policy of "zero problems with neighbours", a policy he first articulated in a 2001 book, Strategic Depth.
  • (14) A lot of them are young guys, much younger than Dapper Laughs, and they say crazy stupid stuff that people seem to love so much they keep on saying it.
  • (15) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
  • (16) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.
  • (17) The controversial comedian known as Dapper Laughs has used his first public appearance since the axing of a second series of his ITV2 show to claim that he was laying the “character” to rest, while describing himself as “a victim of my own mistakes” and blaming the media for much of the recent storm surrounding him.
  • (18) Dapper Laughs’s brand of ‘comedy’ - which is deeply offensive about homeless people, not to mention many others - is something we felt it was important to take a stand against.
  • (19) Dapper in bow tie and blazer, Nigel Farage’s new European ally likes to welcome a woman to his grey-walled, grey-carpeted Brussels office by stooping to kiss her hand.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Adele's Skyfall Updated at 2.21am GMT 12.46am GMT Neil Patrick Harris is speaking to the "dapper" Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet.

Rapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
  • (n.) A forcible oath or lie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
  • (2) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
  • (3) And lying is something that these rappers have absolutely no intention of doing.
  • (4) Chile - Eggsy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldie Lookin’ Chain had a series of hits in 2004 and 2005, the biggest being Guns Don’t Kill People Rappers Do.
  • (5) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
  • (6) A new song by Jessie J has given rapper Nicki Minaj her first UK No 1.
  • (7) Raekwon has yet to respond to RZA's most recent comments, although the rapper declared last week that he is "on strike" from the group.
  • (8) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
  • (9) There have been a lot of issues and challenges that I honestly wasn’t aware of until I got involved,” says the 42-year-old rapper, who has just completed a Canadian tour and spent the summer on a roadshow with Bathily and Niang that took him from the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, through Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria and Niger, culminating at the coastal city of Cotonou, Benin, where they inspected Akon Lighting Africa’s projects.
  • (10) That did not work out, but such mis-steps don’t seem to have tarnished the rapper’s brand.
  • (11) A representative for the rapper has not responded to the Guardian’s request for comment at the time of publication.
  • (12) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
  • (13) He may have picked up a lesson or two from Kanye West, another rapper with a punishing work schedule.
  • (14) The rapper, real name Sean Donnelly, has found himself a viral YouTube and Twitter celebrity after recording a track that certainly offers a "different sound".
  • (15) Holler If Ya Hear Me will be co-produced by the late rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur.
  • (16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
  • (17) But even as details of the prospective deal began to emerge and give it credibility (including the slightly bizarre but apparently true report of musician Drake intervening to persuade his fan, Defoe, to come to the rapper's hometown team ), there still seemed to be something of a gap between the thought of Defoe arriving, and Leiweke's late-November promise that Toronto were on the verge of the biggest signing in MLS history.
  • (18) Earlier this year the rapper published an autobiography, The Story of an American Jihadi.
  • (19) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
  • (20) Paris Saint-Germain have become embroiled in a row with the London-born rapper M.I.A after she wore a modified version of the club’s shirt in one of her music videos.