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单词 rap-jacket
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rap-jacketn.

Brit. /ˈrap ˌdʒakɪt/, U.S. /ˈræp ˌdʒækət/
Forms: 1800s– rap-jacket, 1800s– wrap-jacket (nonstandard).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rap v.2, jacket n.
Etymology: < rap v.2 + jacket n.
U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). Now historical.
A whipping game, played esp. by schoolboys (see quot. 1893).
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1870 L. Stephens Let. 21 Sept. in J. D. Waddell Biogr. Sketch L. Stephens (1877) 322 I was remarkably good at the game of ‘deer’, when I was a boy, and I was famous at ‘wrap-jacket’.
1881 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus 125 De way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood.
1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 52 Rap-jacket,..a term used by all classes to mean a game of whipping, in which two boys are given switches, and whip each other with all of their might until one says ‘enough’. They both thus have their jackets thoroughly rapped, if they happen to have on those garments. Two boys who have been fighting at school are very frequently punished by the teacher's making them play rap-jacket until he tells them to stop.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 2/1 He up en say dat he be dad blame ef he ain't gwineter play at rap-jacket wid de whole-hoggers ef he kotch um.
1916 H. Shawmeker Tales from Boy's Fancy 132 The next record rendered was that of a ‘rap-jacket’ contest between two boys.
2004 J. Shrock Gilded Age vii. 125 A typically violent boys' game went by Rap Jacket in the South and Lickety-cut in the North.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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