rap vs slam

rap

noun
  • A sharp blow with something hard. 

  • A whit; a jot. 

  • A positive appraisal; a recommendation. 

  • An appraisal. 

  • Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. 

  • A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. 

  • A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton. 

  • Rap music. 

  • A casual talk. 

  • Blame for something. 

  • A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music. 

verb
  • To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. 

  • To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. 

  • To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music. 

  • To seize and carry off. 

  • To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture. 

  • To talk casually; to engage in conversation. 

  • To utter quickly and sharply. 

slam

noun
  • A sudden impact or blow. 

  • An insult. 

  • Losing or winning all the tricks in a game. 

  • A slambook. 

  • The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. 

  • Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season. 

  • A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs 

  • A slam dunk. 

  • A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules. 

  • A poetry slam. 

  • A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump. 

  • The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product. 

  • One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events. 

verb
  • To defeat or overcome in a match. 

  • To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent. 

  • To compete in a poetry slam. 

  • To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk. 

  • To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. 

  • To make a slam bid. 

  • To occupy and busy with a high workload. 

  • To strike against suddenly and heavily. 

  • To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. 

  • To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. 

  • To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time. 

  • To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail. 

  • To inject intravenously; shoot up. 

  • To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) 

  • To drink off, to drink quickly. 

  • To strike forcefully with some implement. 

How often have the words rap and slam occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )