"backarapper" meaning in English

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          "text": "He would sink like an express lift and leap like a deer: at times he was almost flat on his back and when the hammer cracked he often appeared to be standing on his nose: like a backarapper he fizzed up and down and […]",
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        "A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other."
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        "(West Midlands) A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other."
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