rap in English dictionary

  • rap

    Meanings and definitions of "rap"

    • (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
    • (uncountable) Blame (for something).
    • (informal) A casual talk
    • (uncountable) Rap music.
    • A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
    • To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
    • (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
    • (informal, intransitive) To talk casually.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A sharp blow with something hard.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      Blame (for something), whether or not it results in a conviction.
    • noun
      (informal)
      A casual talk
    • noun
      (music, uncountable)
      Rap music.
    • noun
      A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      A whit; a jot.
    • noun
      A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
    • verb
      (transitive, dated)
      To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
    • verb
      (metalworking)
      To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
    • verb
      (transitive, intransitive)
      To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
    • verb
      (informal, intransitive)
      To talk casually.
    • A sharp blow with something hard
    • Rap music
    • To strike something sharply with one's knuckles
    • To speak lyrics in the style of rap music
    • noun
      a gentle blow
    • noun
      a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
    • noun
      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
    • noun
      the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
    • noun
      the sound made by a gentle blow
    • noun
      voluble conversation
    • verb
      make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
    • verb
      perform rap music
    • verb
      strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles"
    • verb
      talk volubly

    Synonyms of "rap" in English dictionary

    perform, hip-hop, popular music genre are the top synonyms of "rap" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of rap

    • rap ( third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
    • rap ( countable and uncountable;  plural  raps)
    • rap (countable and uncountable, plural raps)
    • rap (plural raps)
    • rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
  • Rap

    Meanings and definitions of "rap"

    • One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 15.
  • RAP

    Meanings and definitions of "rap"

    • Acronym
      Recognized Air Picture

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