backarapper means A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
Etymology
Properly, backrapper, from back + rapper. From the dialect of Warwickshire in the Midlands of England. Compare backrackets.
noun
- A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.“But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.”