Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang A talk, conversation, or discussion.
- noun A form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.
- noun A composition or performance of such music.
- intransitive verb Slang To discuss something freely and at length.
- intransitive verb To perform rap music.
- intransitive verb To perform as rap music.
- noun The least bit.
- intransitive verb To hit sharply and swiftly; strike.
- intransitive verb To utter sharply.
- intransitive verb To criticize or blame.
- intransitive verb To strike a quick light blow.
- noun A quick light blow or knock.
- noun A knocking or tapping sound.
- noun A reprimand.
- noun A sentence to serve time in prison.
- noun Slang A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.
- idiom (beat the rap) To escape punishment or be acquitted of a charge.
- idiom (take the rap) To accept punishment or take the blame for an offense or error.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heavy or quick, smart, blow; a sharp or resounding knock; concussion from striking.
- noun A sound produced by knocking, as at a door, or by any sharp concussion; specifically, in modern spiritualism, a ticking or knocking noise produced by no apparent physical means, and ascribed to the agency of disembodied spirits.
- To beat upon; strike heavily or smartly; give a quick, sharp blow to, as with the fist, a door-knocker, a stick, or the like; knock upon.
- To use in striking; make a blow or blows with.
- To utter sharply: speak out: usually with out (see phrase below).
- To produce or indicate by rapping sounds; impart by a series of significant raps: as, to
rap out a communication or a signal: used specifically of the supposed transmission of spiritual intelligence in this way through the instrumentality of mediums. - Synonyms To thump, whack.
- To deal a heavy blow or heavy blows; beat.
- To fall with a stroke or blow; drop so as to strike.
- To strike a quick, sharp blow; make a sound by knocking, as on a door: as, to
rap for admittance. - To take an oath; swear; especially, to swear falsely: compare
to rap out , above. - noun A counterfeit coin of bad metal which passed current in Ireland for a halfpenny in the reign of George I., before the issue of Wood's halfpence.
- To snatch or hurry away; seize by violence; carry off; transport; ravish.
- To transport out of one's self; affect with ecstasy or rapture; carry away; absorb; engross.
- To scratch.
- noun A lay or skein of yarn containing 120 yards.
- noun A Middle English form of
rope . - noun A Middle English preterit of
reap .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- noun to care nothing.
- noun worth nothing.
- transitive verb To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
- transitive verb obsolete To hasten.
- transitive verb To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture.
- transitive verb Obs. & Low To exchange; to truck.
- transitive verb To engage in a discussion, converse.
- transitive verb to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see
rap music . - transitive verb To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence.
- transitive verb to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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*Puts top bak on and raps wif ducktaip, rap rap rap rap*
At first i was like… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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_Rap, rap, rap_, came now at the door, and a voice with a decided French accent, a voice that sounded familiar to me, said:
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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.
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* 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.
waayt! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Jimmy Bourke, "with a final _rap, rap, rap_ of his pipe.
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They cringe when the term rap rock enters the conversation.
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Alicia Keys thinks that gangsta rap is a white conspiracy to get black people to kill each other.
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Alicia Keys thinks that gangsta rap is a white conspiracy to get black people to kill each other.
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After training, a fighter must join him in what he calls "rap time."
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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".
oroboros commented on the word rap
Par in reverse.
November 2, 2007
bilby commented on the word rap
"How many times did Jimi try it on with friends and find he had nothing but fans? How many times did he start to rap charming with his bush-baby eyes and his ready smile and that fast sharp patter only to find no comeback but fawning? How often did the rapping change to panhandling and then to sneering because his friends were nothing but an audience and they didn't know the difference between the panhandling and the straight rap? How often did the caress and the compliment change to insult and assault? His foxy ladies turned to slags and pigs in a second."
- 'Hey, Jimi, Where You Gonna Run To Now?', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1970.
March 31, 2008