DAPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dapper mean? 

• DAPPER (adjective)
  The adjective DAPPER has 1 sense:

1. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

  Familiarity information: DAPPER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAPPER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Synonyms:

dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce

Context example:

a jaunty red hat

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

Derivation:

dapperness (stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance)

 Context examples 

Dapper homolog 2 (774 aa, ~83 kDa) is encoded by the human DACT2 gene.

(Dapper Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes dapper homolog 2 protein, plays a role in the negative regulation of signal transduction.

(DACT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes had sent on a wire, so that Lestrade, as wiry, as dapper, and as ferret-like as ever, was waiting for us at the station.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a dapper, brisk man, very richly clad, with a round, clean-shaven face, and very bright black eyes, which danced and sparkled with excitement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dapper little man, with a quick, alert manner and a waxed moustache, had just descended from a high dog-cart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two gentlemen were awaiting us in the station—the one a tall, fair man with lion-like hair and beard and curiously penetrating light blue eyes; the other a small, alert person, very neat and dapper, in a frock-coat and gaiters, with trim little side-whiskers and an eye-glass.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The great fire crackled in the grate, the hooded hawks slept upon their perches, the rough deer-hounds with expectant eyes crouched upon the tiled floor; close at the elbows of the guests stood the dapper little lilac-coated pages; the laugh and jest circled round and all was harmony and comfort.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)