rap

IPA: rˈæp

noun

  • (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
  • (slang) Blame for something.
  • (informal) A casual talk.
  • (music, uncountable) Rap music.
  • A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
  • (Australia, informal) An appraisal.
  • (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
  • 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.
  • (historical) 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 whit; a jot.
  • (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
  • recognized air picture
  • (slang, attributive) The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.
  • (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
  • (UK, pensions) Initialism of retirement annuity plan. [(UK, pensions) A retirement annuity contract.]

verb

  • (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
  • (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  • (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  • To utter quickly and sharply.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
  • (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
  • (transitive) To seize and carry off.
  • (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
  • to rappel
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Examples of "rap" in Sentences

  • *Puts top bak on and raps wif ducktaip, rap rap rap rap*
  • Jimmy Bourke, "with a final _rap, rap, rap_ of his pipe.
  • They cringe when the term rap rock enters the conversation.
  • After training, a fighter must join him in what he calls "rap time."
  • Alicia Keys thinks that gangsta rap is a white conspiracy to get black people to kill each other.
  • _Rap, rap, rap_, came now at the door, and a voice with a decided French accent, a voice that sounded familiar to me, said:
  • * just a liddle tuck and pat an some duckytape to hole ebeyting in plase *Striiippp – rap rap rap* now a fiddies style bafscap * Streeeccchhh snap* and a floofy blankey, some possum shape chonklits and done.
  • Then the _contrabandista_ turned and walked sharply across the cavern-like chamber to overtake his men, and as he disappeared, distant but sharp and echoing _rap, rap, rap_, came the reports of firearms, and Punch looked sharply at his companion.
  • All three Myran, Fabolous and Loon have hit back at Mase with their own diss songs, Myran raps "whose Mason Betha? wernt he the one kissing Diddy's ass for more chedder Betha can preach to my bretta this is what they call a rap vendetta", Loon raps saying "how you go from general to number 1 soldier" While Fabolous calls Mase "confused".

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