I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gangsta rap
rap sheet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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There have been worse rap sheets on athletes.
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She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a bad rap in the 1990s.
bum
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They got me on a bum rap .
gangsta
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Dre, 31, co-founded Death Row Records but walked away from the company and gangsta rap last March.
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It is powerful enough to be the object of high praise in gangsta rap songs.
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Or where gangsta rap gets played with nothing bleeped.
■ NOUN
group
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Last year Shawn Stussy openly embraced the straight, utility clothing sported by many rap groups .
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The only character with more depth than a hardwood floor is Shorty, played by Fredro Starr of the rap group Onyx.
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There, he joined a six-man rap group in which he was the lead vocalist -- and the only white.
music
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The pseudonym had been insisted upon by the other band members, since they had openly attacked rap music in the past.
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At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
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Spielberg's film swamps the Neverland with baseball and basketball, with burgers and skateboards and rap music .
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Workshops on desegregation, education reform, military discrimination and rap music were packed, and discussion was lively.
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Low-rider chariots with rap music blasting, silent horseback riders.
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The ads seek to convince corporations to stop producing certain rap music and to convince consumers to stop buying.
sheet
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There have been worse rap sheets on athletes.
star
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The rap star confirmed yesterday that he and Jennifer had split up.
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One month later he was shacked up in some hotel room with a leggy rap star .
■ VERB
beat
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As petrol is beating the stigma of carrying lead, so diesel must beat the particulate rap .
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I was dismayed by these feelings, even ashamed, having always presumed that a good feminist would beat this rap .
take
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It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention.
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Ed Vulliamy Who should take the rap ?
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Mike refuses, takes the rap , and Ernie goes free.
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What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.
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He has set up his neighbour to take the rap for a very nasty murder.
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And it is these bit players who nearly always take the rap , rather than white-collar drug lords such as Amado Carrillo.
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People like you usually arrange it so that people like Gleeson take the rap .
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Combs also is charged with bribery for allegedly offering his driver $ 50,000 to take the gun rap for him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat the rap
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Frye was arrested on state and federal charges, but he managed to beat the rap.
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He's been arrested on federal charges three times and has beaten the rap every time.
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He's been indicted three times, but beat the rap each time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There was a rap at the kitchen door.
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We heard a sharp rap on the door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few seconds later a rap on the side caused several sinuous silhouettes to leap back into the shadows.
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Along with rap artists and basketball players, these are the black men the black boys look up to.
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At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
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I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles.
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Music ranges from funk and rap to house, but is always the last word in drop-dead cool.
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The Roots rocked the house, bringing its own style of rap .
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What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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L.L. Cool J raps on a new album of Disney songs.
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Nelson is being rapped for his team's loss.
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Sammy was rapping about some guy in L.A.
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Seeing her son outside, Mrs Evans rapped on the window and called him back into the house.
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She rapped the table with her pen and called for silence.
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The conductor rapped the music stand with his baton and the violins stopped playing.
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Yoshinaka rapped an order at his men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Creed went over and rapped on the top section, but there was no answer.
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He rapped gently on the wood.
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It raps a defector over the knuckles instantly but, after that, lets bygones be bygones.
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Knuckles were rapping on the car windows, breath steaming the glass.
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My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way.
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There was a small, delicate rapping at the door.