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Definition of Rap

1. Noun. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed. "It was a bum rap"

2. Verb. Strike sharply. "Rap him on the knuckles"

3. Noun. A gentle blow.

4. Verb. Make light, repeated taps on a surface. "He was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

5. Noun. The sound made by a gentle blow.

6. Verb. Perform rap music.

7. Noun. Voluble conversation.

8. Verb. Talk volubly. "Sam and Sue rap"

9. 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.

10. Noun. The act of hitting vigorously. ; "He gave the table a whack"

Definition of Rap

1. n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

2. v. i. To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

3. v. t. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

4. n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

5. v. t. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

6. 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.

Definition of Rap

1. to strike sharply [v RAPPED, RAPPING, RAPS]

Medical Definition of Rap

1. Oncogene related to ras. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of RAP

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