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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Shakur’s rapping is casually virtuosic, suave even as he tosses off boasts, taunts and threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Even megastar Bruno Mars joins in on the fun, gamely rapping the cowbell on “Never Wanna Lose You.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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
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 tried rapping on the twelfth rectangle and then on the ones around it.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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
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
The whole foot, in fact, can be made to give rappings by the use only of muscles below the knee.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
He amused himself watching one stately older man examine the underside of the table, find nothing, and leave that night sure “that these rappings were veritable messages from beyond the grave.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Lemuel followed the rappings to find their source.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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