Meaning of Rage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
   countable, uncountable
2. A current fashion or fad.
   countable, uncountable
3. An exciting and boisterous party.
   Australia, New-Zealand, US, countable, slang, uncountable
4. A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
   countable, uncountable
5. Any vehement passion.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”

“They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.”

“[…] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair.”

“Miniskirts were all the rage back then.”

“But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.”

“This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.”

“Here and there were certain unmistakable derniers cris, some of them undoubtedly destined - had the world pursued its expected course - to become the rage of tomorrow; others, I would say, a dead loss from their very inception.”

“‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’”

“That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."”

“Tripp At Knight feels like a Carti homage, but while it certainly gestures towards the rage sound, Trippie’s imitation of Carti is largely rooted in 2019 rather than 2021.”

“The list of rappers affiliated with rage has exploded in the subsequent 18 months, and several seem poised to break out in 2023.”

“OK produced the bulk of Jump Out, and the pair succeeded in crafting a sound that, while sonically linked to the forbearers of the underground — maximalist drums in the spirit of so-called “rage” rap along with melodic flourishes of early Playboi Carti — the Charlotte, North Carolina born producer manages to tread new terrain, constructing a sonic identity that feels deliriously right now.”

“And your true rights be termed a poet's rage”

“in great rage of pain”

“convulsed with a rage of grief”

“He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.”

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