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Needs formatting if OK. The only citation I can find is:
- 1956, John Petty, Five fags a day: the last year of a scrap-picker, page 60:
- 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 […]
- -sche (discuss) 06:46, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
- Cited from a well-known work. This book confirms it is a dialectal word (Warwickshire) and not an in-universe term. — Ungoliant (falai) 18:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
- Curiously, several more uses turn up now than turned up when I checked Google Books for this prior to posting the RFV. I've now added one of them, which, together with the citation I mention above and the Tolkien citation, means this is now well cited. I've removed the RFV tag ("speedily passed" or "withdrawn", however one prefers to analyse it). - -sche (discuss) 18:43, 13 July 2014 (UTC)