rap

[ UK /ɹˈæp/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæp/ ]
VERB
  1. perform rap music
  2. talk volubly
  3. make light, repeated taps on a surface
    he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
  4. strike sharply
    rap him on the knuckles
NOUN
  1. the act of hitting vigorously
    he gave the table a whack
  2. a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
    he took the blame for it
    it was a bum rap
  3. a gentle blow
  4. 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
  5. the sound made by a gentle blow
  6. voluble conversation
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