rapping

[ rap-ing ]

noun

the act or sound of a person or thing that raps.
communication by the sound of taps or knocks, as between medium and spirit during a séance.

Origin of rapping

1350–1400; Middle English. See rap¹, -ing¹

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Then Eminem decided he wanted in on some of the mean-spirited misogyny, actually rapping about raping Iggy.
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The posterior metaphor clicked, and she began rapping about being “no size 2.”
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Accordingly, she walks up to Pratt and begins rapping her flirting in the terrifying cadence of Nicki Minaj.
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rapping 101 is apparently not a class offered at Wesleyan University.
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Even rapping rivals Shug Knight and Tupac Shakur rented one year…at the same time.
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He had their undivided attention in a moment, without the rapping of Miss Carringtons hard knuckle on the table top.
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Not many days later, Old Man Winter returned, and again came rapping at their lodge.
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And just then the cab suddenly stopped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front glass.
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A half-hour later, De la Riviere came rapping at the Cure's door.
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The next minute he was the Big Boss again, rapping out his orders as if he had just pushed his desk button to call us in.
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