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rap verb- to talk without an agenda, aimlessly but honestly US, 1929
Found before the 1960s, but truly a word of the 60s. - Somebody to talk to, he’s intuitive and perceptive, and we walk around the ball field for hours and rap about everything. — James Blake, The Joint, p. 75, 15 April 1954
- Half-breed Joe from Mexico / who was rappin’ with Commanche Pete. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 65, 1964
- So I stood there and rapped to them for a little while and then I left. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 49, 1965
- In point of fact he is funny and very glib, and I dig rapping (talking) with him. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (letter dated 19th September, 1965), p. 46, 19 September 1968
- Sarah, I bet you haven’t had anybody around like me to rap to, have you? I don’t have to tell you how it is, Sarah. You know, I–I love you and I want you to rap[.] — Easy Rider, 1969
- I said, “Jack, it’s all yours. After I get my ribs I’ll duck back into the joint and ‘rap’ with you.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 98, 1969
- That’s why they call me Rap, ’cause I could rap. (The name stuck because Ed would always say, “That’s my nigger Rap”, “Rap my nigger.”) — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 27, 1969
- As Che rapped on for four hours, we fantasized taking up rifles. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 20, 1970
- I confess I enjoyed rapping with them and usually wind up assured that eternal salvation is beyond my reach. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 101, 1970
- Well, as previously reported, old fast-talking Plucky manages to rap his way out of a potentially grim encounter with a pistol-packing padre[.] — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 86, 1971
- I readily rapped to Zelda, trying to talk cool but nicer than most boastiferous conversations I heard in the Fire Island. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 109, 1978
- He came over to visit and we got to rapping and I told him of our situation. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 192, 1990
- to criticise someone US
- “They fed me, they clothed me, they sent me to college.” “So what are you rapping ‘em for?” “Because they filled me full of insecurities.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 10, 1957
- to accuse someone falsely or to seek a more serious sentence for someone than their crime deserves US, 1965
- “Who wanted to rap a punk for a caper as guilty as that?” — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 275, 1949
- I gave the officer that was pressin’ charges against me ten dollars, not to turn me loose, but to not rap me. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 68, 1965
- to perform semi-spoken lyrics over a musical background US, 1979
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