rap (n.)

  1. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; he took the blame for it; it was a bum rap

    [ Syn: blame ]

  2. a gentle blow

    [ Syn: strike , tap ]

  3. the sound made by a gentle blow

    [ Syn: pat , tap ]

  4. voluble conversation

  5. genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

    [ Syn: rap music , rap music , hip-hop , hip-hop ]

  6. the act of hitting vigorously; he gave the table a whack

    [ Syn: knock , belt , whack , whang ]

    rap (v.)

  1. strike sharply; rap him on the knuckles

    [ Syn: knap ]

  2. make light, repeated taps on a surface; he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently

    [ Syn: tap , knock , pink ]

  3. perform rap music

  4. talk volubly

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