RAP - 20 definitions found
rap n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame, rap] 2: a gentle blow [syn: rap, strike, tap] 3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap] 4: voluble conversation 5: 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 [syn: rap, rap music, hip-hop] 6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang] v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: rap, knap] 2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, rap, knock, pink] 3: perform rap music 4: talk volubly rap ̈ɪræp See: TAKE THE RAP. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) rap I. noun Etymology: Middle English rappe Date: 14th century 1. a sharp blow or knock 2. a. a sharp rebuke or criticism b. a negative and often undeserved reputation or charge — often used with bum or bad <given a bum rap by the press> 3. a. the responsibility for or adverse consequences of an action <refused to take the rap> b. a criminal charge c. a prison sentence II. verb (rapped; rapping) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to strike with a sharp blow 2. to utter suddenly and forcibly 3. to cause to be or come by raps <rap the meeting to order> 4. to criticize sharply intransitive verb 1. to strike a quick sharp blow 2. to make a short sharp sound III. transitive verb (rapped; also rapt; rapping) Etymology: back-formation from rapt Date: 1599 1. to snatch away or upward 2. enrapture IV. noun Etymology: perhaps from 1rap Date: 1834 a minimum amount or degree (as of care or consideration) ; the least bit <doesn't care a rap> V. intransitive verb (rapped; rapping) Etymology: perhaps from 1rap Date: 1929 1. to talk freely and frankly 2. to perform rap music VI. noun Date: 1967 1. talk, conversation; also a line of talk ; patter 2. a. a rhythmic chanting often in unison of usually rhymed couplets to a musical accompaniment b. a piece so performed Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary rap (raps, rapping, rapped) 1. Rap is a type of music in which the words are not sung but are spoken in a rapid, rhythmic way. Her favorite music was by Run DMC, a rap group. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n 2. Someone who raps performs rap music. ...the unexpected pleasure of hearing the Kids not only rap but even sing... VERB: V 3. A rap is a piece of music performed in rap style, or the words that are used in it. Every member contributes to the rap, singing either solo or as part of a rap chorus. N-COUNT 4. If you rap on something or rap it, you hit it with a series of quick blows. Mary Ann turned and rapped on Simon's door. ...rapping the glass with the knuckles of his right hand... A guard raps his stick on a metal hand rail. VERB: V on n, V n, V n on n • Rap is also a noun. There was a sharp rap on the door. N-COUNT: usu N on n 5. A rap is a statement in a court of law that someone has committed a particular crime, or the punishment for committing it. (AM INFORMAL) You'll be facing a Federal rap for aiding and abetting an escaped convict. N-COUNT: oft adj N for n/-ing 6. A rap is an act of criticizing or blaming someone. (JOURNALISM) FA chiefs could still face a rap and a possible fine... N-COUNT: usu sing 7. If you rap someone for something, you criticize or blame them for it. (JOURNALISM) Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers... VERB: V n for/over n 8. The rap about someone or something is their reputation, often a bad reputation which they do not deserve. (AM INFORMAL) The rap on this guy is that he doesn't really care... N-SING: usu with supp 9. If someone in authority raps your knuckles or raps you on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong. (JOURNALISM) I joined the workers on strike and was rapped over the knuckles... PHRASE: V inflects 10. If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong. (JOURNALISM) The remark earned him a rap on the knuckles... PHRASE: PHR after v 11. If you take the rap, you are blamed or punished for something, especially something that is not your fault or for which other people are equally guilty. (INFORMAL) When the client was murdered, his wife took the rap, but did she really do it? PHRASE: V inflects Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) RAP [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet) Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) RAP Remote Access Point Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary RAP Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary rap Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior. 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped, usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rap \Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.] 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. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. --Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. --Mrs. Alexander. RAP Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms rap I. n. Knock, stroke, pat, thump, thwack, smart blow. II. v. a. Strike (suddenly), knock. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) rap ̈ɪræp v. 1 knock, strike, tap, hit: The policeman rapped smartly at the door with his truncheon. 2 criticize, rebuke, scold, reprimand, rap over the knuckles, Colloq knock, Brit tick off: We were severely rapped for dropping litter on the pavement. 3 converse, talk, chat, gossip, Colloq gab, Slang chew the fat or the rag: That guy was so fascinating - we could rap with him for hours. --n. 4 knock, tap, hit, blow, crack, stroke, cuff, whack, thwack, punch, Colloq belt, clout, Slang sock, slug, biff: The punishment for failing to complete the assignment was a severe rap on the knuckles. 5 conversation, discussion, chat, confabulation, talk, dialogue, discourse, colloquy, Colloq confab, Slang chiefly US and Canadian bull session, rap session: We used to get together for a nice long rap now and then. 6 responsibility, blame; punishment, sentence; charge, accusation, indictment: Why should he have to take the rap for something you did? The witness failed to show up, so Baxter beat the rap. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 314 Moby Thesaurus words for "rap": a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, admonishment, admonition, adverse criticism, air, airing, analysis, analyze, anathematizing, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bagatelle, bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, bauble, beak, bean, beat, beating, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, blame, blow, bob, bonk, brass farthing, brush, buffet, bump, bunt, burst, bust, button, buzz session, canvass, canvassing, captiousness, carping, causerie, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cent, chat, chiding, chin, chink, chop, chuck, clap, clash, click, clink, clip, clop, clout, clump, clunk, colloquium, comment upon, condemn, condemnation, confabulation, conference, conk, consider, consideration, controvert, conviction, crack, crash, criticism, criticize, crump, curio, cut, dab, damnation, dash, deal with, death sentence, death warrant, debate, debating, deliberate, deliberate upon, deliberation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dialectic, dialogue, dig, dint, discourse about, discuss, discussion, doom, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud, examination, examine, exception, exchange of views, exchange views, excommunication, farce, farthing, faultfinding, feather, fig, fillip, flail, flak, flap, fleabite, flick, flip, flirt, flop, flump, folderol, forum, fribble, frippery, fusillade, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, go into, graze, guilty verdict, hair, hairsplitting, halfpenny, hammer, handle, hill of beans, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, investigate, investigation, jab, jest, joint discussion, joke, judgment, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock, knock around, lambaste, larrup, lick, logical analysis, logical discussion, maul, minikin, mockery, molehill, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, open discussion, open forum, overcriticalness, pad, pan, panel discussion, pass under review, paste, pat, patter, peck, pelt, peppercorn, pestering, pettifogging, picayune, pick, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pound, priggishness, proscription, prose, pulverize, pummel, punch, quibble, quibbling, rap session, reason, reason about, reason the point, red cent, reflection, report, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, reprobate, reproof, review, row of pins, rush, seminar, sentence, shit, sift, skin, slam, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, snap, sneeshing, snipe at, sock, sou, spank, splat, straw, stricture, stroke, study, swap, swat, swing, swipe, symposium, take up, taking exception, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tap, tattoo, thrash, thresh, thresh out, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, touch, town meeting, toy, treat, treatment, trichoschistism, trifle, trinket, triviality, tunk, tuppence, two cents, twopence, ventilate, ventilation, verdict of guilty, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whim-wham, whip, whisk, whomp, whop, wig, wipe, yarn, yerk |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
