rappable

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English

Etymology

rap +‎ -able

Adjective

rappable (not comparable)

  1. That can be rapped (rendered in the style of rap music).
    • 2009, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, Weird English, Harvard University Press (→ISBN), page 32:
      The poem "Blues" appropriates the rappable beats of the street, showing the departure of Walcott from the swing of Trinidadian parang.
    • 2019, Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker, Curt Hamakawa, Managing Sport Organizations: Responsibility for performance, Routledge (→ISBN):
      Smith himself can't fully explain the extended retail life of the eponymous product, offering that maybe his simple alliterative name is part of the cachet. Author Steve Rushin concurs, noting: “Somehow Goran Ivanisevic is somehow less rappable” (Rushin, 2016, p. 138). Smith says he still meets people who tell him: “I didn't realize you were an actual person, I thought you were just a shoe” ...

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