Rap - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the sound made by a gentle blow (syn: 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
- the act of hitting vigorously (syn: belt, knock, whack, whang)
verb
- perform rap music
- talk volubly
Extra examples
There was a series of raps on the window.
He was sent to prison on a murder rap.
The new show got a bad rap in all the papers.
There's someone rapping at the door.
You can learn a lot by rapping with people you think might be your enemies.
Judge rapped the police.
She doesn't care a rap for what her father says.
They were rapping about powerful black women.
She was woken by a sharp rap on the door.
The kid's been cited twice on drunk-driving raps.
She rapped the table with her pen.
Angrily she rapped on his window.
'Come on,' he rapped impatiently.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: rap
he/she/it: raps
present participle: rapping
past tense: rapped
past participle: rapped
singular: rap
plural: raps
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