Definition of Rap
Verb: rap (rapped,rapping) rap
- Strike sharply
"rap him on the knuckles";
- knap [archaic]
- Make light, repeated taps on a surface
"he was rapping his fingers on the table impatiently";
- tap, knock, pink
- (music) perform rap music
- Talk volubly
- A reproach for some lapse or misdeed
"it was a bum rap";
- blame
- A gentle blow
- strike, tap
- The sound made by a gentle blow
- pat, tap
- Voluble conversation
- 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
- rap music, hip-hop
- The act of hitting vigorously
"he gave the table a rap";
- knock, belt, whack, whang
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