Rap

Noun

 * 1)  A sharp blow with something hard.
 * The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,
 * 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.
 * 1)  Blame (for something).
 * You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
 * 1)  A casual talk
 * 2)  Rap music.
 * 3) A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

Synonyms

 * fall

Derived terms

 * beat the rap
 * bum rap


 * rap music
 * rap song


 * take the rap

Verb

 * 1) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
 * 2) * 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven":
 * Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
 * 1) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,
 * 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.
 * 1)  To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
 * ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
 * He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
 * 1)  To talk casually.

Synonyms

 * knock

Derived terms

 * rap on
 * rapper

Adverbs for Rap
smartly; vigorously; authoritatively; vivaciously; persistently; furiously; tempestuously.

Thesaurus
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, admonishment, admonition, adverse criticism, air, airing, analysis, analyze, anathematizing, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bagatelle, bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, bauble, beak, bean, beat, beating, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, blame, blow, bob, bonk, brass farthing, brush, buffet, bump, bunt, burst, bust, button, buzz session, canvass, canvassing, captiousness, carping, causerie, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cent, chat, chiding, chin, chink, chop, chuck, clap, clash, click, clink, clip, clop, clout, clump, clunk, colloquium, comment upon, condemn, condemnation, confabulation, conference, conk, consider, consideration, controvert, conviction, crack, crash, criticism, criticize, crump, curio, cut, dab, damnation, dash, deal with, death sentence, death warrant, debate, debating, deliberate, deliberate upon, deliberation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dialectic, dialogue, dig, dint, discourse about, discuss, discussion, doom, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud, examination, examine, exception, exchange of views, exchange views, excommunication, farce, farthing, faultfinding, feather, fig, fillip, flail, flak, flap, fleabite, flick, flip, flirt, flop, flump, folderol, forum, fribble, frippery, fusillade, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, go into, graze, guilty verdict, hair, hairsplitting, halfpenny, hammer, handle, hill of beans, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, investigate, investigation, jab, jest, joint discussion, joke, judgment, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock, knock around, lambaste, larrup, lick, logical analysis, logical discussion, maul, minikin, mockery, molehill, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, open discussion, open forum, overcriticalness, pad, pan, panel discussion, pass under review, paste, pat, patter, peck, pelt, peppercorn, pestering, pettifogging, picayune, pick, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pound, priggishness, proscription, prose, pulverize, pummel, punch, quibble, quibbling, rap session, reason, reason about, reason the point, red cent, reflection, report, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, reprobate, reproof, review, row of pins, rush, seminar, sentence, shit, sift, skin, slam, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, snap, sneeshing, snipe at, sock, sou, spank, splat, straw, stricture, stroke, study, swap, swat, swing, swipe, symposium, take up, taking exception, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tap, tattoo, thrash, thresh, thresh out, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, touch, town meeting, toy, treat, treatment, trichoschistism, trifle, trinket, triviality, tunk, tuppence, two cents, twopence, ventilate, ventilation, verdict of guilty, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whim-wham, whip, whisk, whomp, whop, wig, wipe, yarn, yerk

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kopaus,


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bualadh


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: rap-musiikki,


 * Irish: ,

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Russian:


 * Scottish Gaelic: buail


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: rapować

Anagrams

 * APR, Apr., apr, ARP, arp, PAR, Par, par

Adjective

 * 1) quick, fast
 * Kom eens heel rap hier! - You quickly get over here!

Noun

 * 1) rap music

Synonyms

 * snel, vlug, gezwind

Etymology
From English rap

Noun

 * 1) rap; rap music

Etymology
From

Anagrams

 * par

Noun

 * 1) rope

Noun
rap


 * 1) belch
 * 2)  rap music