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