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Definitions for rapping:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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. [1913 Webster] And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster] 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low] [1913 Webster] 5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC] 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. [PJC] 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. [1913 Webster] All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. [1913 Webster] A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
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]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
rapping See rap

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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

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