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  • noun Plural form of rap.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rap.

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Examples

  • Music (For Robots) « Indie beats vs flossin 'raps |

    My brain is fried (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • P'raps Mrs. Wylie doesn't know anything about the spell, and has just got some stupid, common reason for not wanting us to play with the little girl, or p'raps '-- and this was plainly a brilliant idea --' _p'raps_ the spell's put on her without her knowing, and stops her when she begins to speak about it.

    Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • i like to cast rattlin raps and len thompsons over deep pools and use a fairly fast retrieve also large black and orange/yellow bucktail inline spinners

    any ideas how to catch a nice northern in a river? 2009

  • i like to cast rattlin raps and len thompsons over deep pools and use a fairly fast retrieve also large black and orange/yellow bucktail inline spinners

    any ideas how to catch a nice northern in a river? 2009

  • "He who at every second word raps out a pagan or Christian oath, and cannot for his life tell any difference between the two!"

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

  • I suppose they need not be very apprehensive of counterfeits, which it will be difficult to make so as not to be discovered; for it is plain that those bad halfpence called raps are so easily distinguished, even from the most worn genuine halfpenny, that nobody will now take them for

    The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706

  • But I confess myself in the dark on that article; only I think it impossible it should amount to any proportion near thirty per cent.; otherwise the coiners of those counterfeit halfpence called raps [117] would have little encouragement to follow their trade.

    The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706

  • I am a huge raps fan but let's be real they are terrible without bosh and average with him, unless bosh is "determined" then the raps are a good team, but that effort isn't consistent.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • I told her that the Commission had now had two séances with her, and that the conclusion to which they had come is that the so-called raps are confined wholly to her person, whether produced by her voluntarily or involuntarily they had not attempted to decide; furthermore, that although thus satisfied in their own minds they were anxious to treat her with all possible deference and consideration, and accordingly had desired me to say to her that if she thought another séance with her would or might modify or reverse their conclusion, they held themselves ready to meet her again this evening and renew the investigation of the manifestations; at the same time I felt it my duty to add that in that case the examination would necessarily be of the most searching description.

    Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission

  • He kind of raps about nature and peace and stuff though, which I think are definitely Damon inspired, but it sounds great.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Plastic Beach’ by Gorillaz 2010

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