rapping

Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Rapping}.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke,
   Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.]
   To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
   the door.
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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually
   written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin
   to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
   rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
   hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
   Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
   1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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            And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
            The whirring chariot.                 --Chapman.
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            From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
            Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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   2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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   3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
      transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
      rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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            I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
                                                  --Addison.
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            Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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   4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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   5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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   6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
      with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
      some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
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   {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
      to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
      To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
      "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." --Chaucer.
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            All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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   {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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            A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.
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43 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapping":
      accents, banging, blasting, bursting, chatter,
      colloquial discourse, colloquy, comment, communication, communion,
      conversation, converse, conversing, cracking, crashing, discourse,
      elocution, exchange, exploding, explosive, flapping, gab,
      give-and-take, intercourse, interlocution, knocking, language,
      oral communication, palaver, parole, popping, prattle, slapping,
      slatting, speaking, speech, talk, talking, tapping,
      verbal intercourse, words, yakkety-yak, yakking