rap

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• transitive v. To hit sharply and swiftly; strike: rapped the table with his fist.
• transitive v. To utter sharply: rap out a complaint.
• transitive v. To criticize or blame.
• intransitive v. To strike a quick light blow: rapped on the door.
• n. A quick light blow or knock.
• n. A knocking or tapping sound.
• n. Slang A reprimand.
• n. Slang A sentence to serve time in prison.
• n. Slang A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.
• idiom beat the rap Slang To escape punishment or be acquitted of a charge.
• idiom take the rap Slang To accept punishment or take the blame for an offense or error.
• transitive v. Archaic To enchant or seize with rapture.
• transitive v. Archaic To snatch.
• n. Informal The least bit: I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.
• n. Slang A talk, conversation, or discussion.
• n. 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.
• n. A composition or performance of such music.
• intransitive v. Slang To discuss freely and at length.
• intransitive v. To perform rap music.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A sharp blow with something hard.
• n. Blame (for something).
• n. A casual talk
• n. Rap music.
• n. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
• n. Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; thus, any coin of trifling value.
• v. To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
• v. To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
• v. To talk casually.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
• intransitive v. To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock.
• transitive v. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
• transitive v. To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
• n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.
• transitive v. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
• transitive v. To hasten.
• transitive v. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture.
• transitive v. To exchange; to truck.
• transitive v. To engage in a discussion, converse.
• transitive v. 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.
• n. 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.
• n. conversation; also, rapping.
• n. a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• 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.
• n. A heavy or quick, smart, blow; a sharp or resounding knock; concussion from striking.
• n. 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 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.
• n. 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.
• n. A Middle English form of rope.
• n. A Middle English preterit of reap.
• n. A lay or skein of yarn containing 120 yards.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. perform rap music
• n. 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
• v. talk volubly
• n. a gentle blow
• n. the act of hitting vigorously
• n. the sound made by a gentle blow
• v. make light, repeated taps on a surface
• n. voluble conversation
• v. strike sharply
• n. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed