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rapping

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping .] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. action of the verb ''to rap'' vb. (present participle of rap English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame ] a gentle blow [syn: strike , tap ] the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat , tap ] voluble conversation genre of African-American music of the 1980s ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rapping (or emceeing , MCing , spitting bars ,''' '''or rhyming ) is "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The components of rapping include "content", "flow" ( rhythm and rhyme ), and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken-word poetry in that it is ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, verbal noun from rap (v.1). Meaning "talking" is from 1969; meaning "rap music performance" is from 1979, from rap (v.2).

Usage examples of rapping.

Rapping a pen against his desk blotter, Nestler weighed their comments.

Three more cars pulled up behind him, including a Tokamak, and he happened to glance at the rearview screen when Blaine climbed out, walking with a genuine bounce, approaching on the right and rapping on the passenger window with one fat knuckle, then stooping down and smiling through the glass, proving that he had made a remarkable recovery since being murdered.

The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles.

Chief Brehon, rapping on the wooden table before him with his staff of office and calling for silence.

Matt Gregoire was rapping anxiously on the closed glass partition separating us.

Rapping his knife handle on the table for silence, the new Master of Porterhouse rose to his feet.

She also had a way of lunging predatorily into the classroom and rapping the knuckles of any girl who had been whispering, making faces at the teachers, passing notes, doodling, woolgathering, fidgeting, scratching, nose-picking, sighing, or slumping.

NSA team tested the land-based circuits and found that signals from teletypewriters that were rapping out decrypted, highly secret messages were leaking onto unencrypted voice channels.

Clothes hangers were tinkling, and all the glass in the windows rattled like someone rapping to get in.

Encountering chuckholes, cracks, and patches in the pavement, the tires stuttered as hard as rapping hammers, and Dylan worried about the consequences of a blowout at this lightning pace, but he pressed the Expedition to 96, taxing the shock absorbers, torturing the springs, onward to 97, with engine screaming and wind of their own manufacture shrieking at the windows, to 98, between bracketing big rigs, around a sleek Jaguar with a cruise-missile whoosh that elicited a disapproving blast of the sports car's horn, to 99.

A milling sea of multicolored humanity filled it to overflowing as always, shucking and jiving and hustling and rapping and breakdancing and just hanging out.

Hip-hop’s four legs delivered everything: music in DJ’ing, poetry in MC rapping, dance in the b-boy’s breakdancing and art in Jax’s own contribution, graffiti.

In the distance but clear, like the voices you heard in dreams, Eddie heard a rapid, rapping, ecstatic voice streetbopping its message: “SayGawd, brotha, that’s right, sayGawd on Second Avenue, sayGawd on Avenue B, sayGawd in the Bronx, I sayGawd, I sayGawd -bomb, I sayGawd!

In the distance but clear, like the voices you heard in dreams, Eddie heard a rapid, rapping, ecstatic voice streetbopping its message: “Say Gawd, brotha, that’s right, say Gawd on Second Avenue, say Gawd on Avenue B, say Gawd in the Bronx, I say Gawd, I say Gawd-bomb, I say Gawd!

In the distance but clear, like the voices you heard in dreams, Eddie heard a rapid, rapping, ecstatic voice streetbopping its message: "Say Gawd, brotha, that's right, say Gawd on Second Avenue, say Gawd on Avenue B, say Gawd in the Bronx, I say Gawd, I say Gawd-bomb, I say Gawd!