reaper

1. (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.Examples: "Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”"; "Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly"; "Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't."abbreviationalt-ofcapitalizedellipsisoften