(n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(2) Others think it's all a bit of a laugh and quite OK." She expects Harry to rappel down into her garden from the plane trees in the Royal Hospital grounds.
(3) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(4) One sailor also died and three people were detained in the operation that began yesterday afternoon with special forces rappelling down from helicopters and carrying out door-to-door identity checks and weapons searches.
(5) He wore a Kevlar vest with harnesses for rappelling and parachuting, and a night-vision camera with a 180-degree field of vision.
(6) Her feat of extreme rappelling, descending 94m down the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth on Sunday, reminded me that the spirit of adventure, of discovery and the need to defy death are innate in all of us regardless of our age.
(7) Included were 71 controls, 64 young athletes examined just before their exercise, 14 volunteers who were examined 10-20 min before engagement in rappelling while an additional group of 20 were examined just before the act as they were facing an abyss from the top of a cliff.
(8) Greenpeace activists surprised us in the early morning hours Wednesday when they rappelled down ropes from the St John’s Bridge overhead, their orange and yellow banners waving in the breeze.
(9) In July, protesters from the organisation rappelled from a bridge in Portland and delayed the passage of the Fennica from the dry dock where it had been repaired.
Rapper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
(n.) A forcible oath or lie.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
(2) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(3) And lying is something that these rappers have absolutely no intention of doing.
(4) Chile - Eggsy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldie Lookin’ Chain had a series of hits in 2004 and 2005, the biggest being Guns Don’t Kill People Rappers Do.
(5) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
(6) A new song by Jessie J has given rapper Nicki Minaj her first UK No 1.
(7) Raekwon has yet to respond to RZA's most recent comments, although the rapper declared last week that he is "on strike" from the group.
(8) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
(9) There have been a lot of issues and challenges that I honestly wasn’t aware of until I got involved,” says the 42-year-old rapper, who has just completed a Canadian tour and spent the summer on a roadshow with Bathily and Niang that took him from the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, through Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria and Niger, culminating at the coastal city of Cotonou, Benin, where they inspected Akon Lighting Africa’s projects.
(10) That did not work out, but such mis-steps don’t seem to have tarnished the rapper’s brand.
(11) A representative for the rapper has not responded to the Guardian’s request for comment at the time of publication.
(12) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(13) He may have picked up a lesson or two from Kanye West, another rapper with a punishing work schedule.
(14) The rapper, real name Sean Donnelly, has found himself a viral YouTube and Twitter celebrity after recording a track that certainly offers a "different sound".
(15) Holler If Ya Hear Me will be co-produced by the late rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur.
(16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(17) But even as details of the prospective deal began to emerge and give it credibility (including the slightly bizarre but apparently true report of musician Drake intervening to persuade his fan, Defoe, to come to the rapper's hometown team ), there still seemed to be something of a gap between the thought of Defoe arriving, and Leiweke's late-November promise that Toronto were on the verge of the biggest signing in MLS history.
(18) Earlier this year the rapper published an autobiography, The Story of an American Jihadi.
(19) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
(20) Paris Saint-Germain have become embroiled in a row with the London-born rapper M.I.A after she wore a modified version of the club’s shirt in one of her music videos.