rap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
engineering
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”). Compare Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”). More at rape.
Inflected forms:
form: raps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sharp blow with something hard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so. Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!
gloss: The blame for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
gloss: A casual talk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.
gloss: Rap music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They like listening to rap.
gloss: A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An appraisal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: a good/great/bad rap
gloss: A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He gave the novel quite a rap.
gloss: To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
gloss: To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: With one great peal they rap the door.
Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance. I noticed, though, that whenever one looked tired and lagged, she let it slip past. But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.
gloss: To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
pos: verb
gloss: To utter quickly and sharply.
pos: verb
examples: The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
"My dear sir!" rapped out the distressed curate, "don't you think that I haven't worried about that? […]"
gloss: To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
gloss: To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.
Louie said, "I dig this Theo. I'm gonna learn Swahili and rap with him."
Got your address from NGTF, I could dig some mail and friends. I'll be released in July of '80, am 24, and like chess, body building, people and of course letters. Nice rapping to you.
Related words: emcee
hip-hop
Derived words: antirap
backpack rap
bad rap
battle rap
beat the rap
bum rap
cloud rap
conscious rap
country rap
dungeon rap
emo rap
gangsta rap
gangster rap
jazz rap
Memphis rap
mumble rap
progressive rap
proto-rap
rap back
rap battle
rap battling
rapcore
rap group
raphead
rapless
raplike
rap-like
rapmeister
rap metal
rap music
rap opera
rapophile
rap rock
rapso
rap song
raptastic
ringtone rap
SoundCloud rap
take the rap
outrap
rap and rend
rap at
rap on
rappable
rappage
rapper
rap someone's knuckles
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