Rapping

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually
     written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin
     to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
     rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
     hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
     Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
     1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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              And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
              The whirring chariot.                 --Chapman.
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              From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
              Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                    Wotton.
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     2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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     3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
        transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
        rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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              I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
                                                    --Addison.
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              Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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     4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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     5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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     6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
        with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
        some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
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     {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
        to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
        To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
        "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." --Chaucer.
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              All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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     {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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              A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rap
       n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for
            it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}]
       2: a gentle blow [syn: {strike}, {tap}]
       3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {tap}]
       4: voluble conversation
       5: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in
          which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical
          accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: {rap
          music}, {hip-hop}]
       6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
          [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {whack}, {whang}]
       v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {knap}]
       2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
          fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {knock}, {pink}]
       3: perform rap music
       4: talk volubly
       [also: {rapping}, {rapped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rapping
       See {rap}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapping":
     accents, banging, blasting, bursting, chatter,
     colloquial discourse, colloquy, comment, communication, communion,
     conversation, converse, conversing, cracking, crashing, discourse,
     elocution, exchange, exploding, explosive, flapping, gab,
     give-and-take, intercourse, interlocution, knocking, language,
     oral communication, palaver, parole, popping, prattle, slapping,
     slatting, speaking, speech, talk, talking, tapping,
     verbal intercourse, words, yakkety-yak, yakking