rapping
Americannoun
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rappings
plural
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the act or sound of a person or thing that raps.
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communication by the sound of taps or knocks, as between medium and spirit during a séance.
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He started rapping as a hobby when he was 10 and was making beats on his computer at 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
On a Wednesday in early April, Adams started class with a music video of him rapping on a city street, then revealed he’d made it using Google’s Veo 3 video generator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
But the nonchalance of the sapphic romance portrayed in the video for 2025’s “First Luv,” and the ferocious rapping of “Shagidi” show this is an ambitious band with influence and inventiveness, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Ellis started his career at the age of seven, rapping and making his own music on an Atari computer system.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
They found nothing that could make rapping noises.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Its experimentalist score by Iannis Xenakis, full of echoing rappings, tappings and pluckings, inspired Balanchine to equally experimental lengths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time, before she vanished into the darkness, a spirit message was transmitted, “I am here to bid you greeting. The rappings shall still go on.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
His opinion was clear; he called the rappings “atrocious.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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