rapping

Verb

rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)

1. (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
   • While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   knock, noogie

2. (dated, transitive) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
   • With one great peal they rap the door.1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
3. To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
4. To utter quickly and sharply.
   • The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
5. (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
   • He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
6. (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
   • Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129

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