rap
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rap (countable and uncountable; plural raps)
- (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- (uncountable) Blame (for something).
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
- (informal) A casual talk
- (uncountable) Rap music.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
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- (blame): fall
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Terms derived from the noun "rap"
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A sharp blow with something hard
Rap music
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rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- 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."
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven":
- (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
- (informal, intransitive) To talk casually.
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- (strike something sharply with one's knuckles): knock
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To strike something sharply with one's knuckles
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- Rhymes: -ɑp
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rap (comparative rapper, superlative rapst)
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rap
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From English
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rap m. (usually uncountable)
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rāp m.
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rap c.
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- English countable nouns
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- French terms derived from English
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
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- fr:Music genres
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