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Singular
rap

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural raps

rap (countable and uncountable; plural raps)

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  1. (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
    The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
  2. (uncountable) Blame (for something).
    You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
  3. (uncountable) Rap music.

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Infinitive
to rap

Third person singular
raps

Simple past
rapped

Past participle
rapped

Present participle
rapping

to rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)

  1. To strike something sharply with one's knuckles.
    • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven":
      Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
  2. To speak lyrics in the style of rap music.

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  • (strike something sharply with one's knuckles): knock

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rap (alternate form: rappe, comparative: rapper, superlative: rapst)

  1. quick, fast
    Kom eens heel rap hier! - You quickly get over here!

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From English rap

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rap

  1. rap music

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Proto-Germanic *raipa-

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rāp m

  1. rope

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rap c.

Inflection for rap 1 Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form rap rapen rapar raparna
Possessive form raps rapens rapars raparnas
Declination for rap 2 Singular Uncountable
Common Indefinite Definite
Base form rap rapen
Possessive form raps rapens
  1. belch
  2. (uncountable) rap music

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