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rapping

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹæp.ɪŋ//

The sound of a rap or knock.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of rappresent participle and gerund of rap

noun

  1. 1

    The sound of a rap or knock.

    During the séance, we heard mysterious rappings on the table.

  2. 2

    Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.

adjective

  1. 1

    datedRemarkably large; whopping.

Forms

plural
rappings
comparative
more rapping
superlative
most rapping
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).