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Rap

//ɹæp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds. attributive, slang

    "He makes good sense. However, I must comment on "CSO prices rough diamonds to its sightholders based on the Rap List." It does not. It doesn't use the list."

Noun
  1. 1
    A sharp blow with something hard. countable

    "The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend."

  2. 2
    A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

    "[…] and that every hank or skein that shall be used as a binder to tie up or bind together any pound or parcel of yarn shall contain the same number of threads in a rap or lea, and the same number of raps or leas as the other hanks or skeins in the said pound or parcel."

  3. 3
    Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. historical

    "Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps."

  4. 4
    Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  5. 5
    recognized air picture
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  1. 6
    the act of hitting vigorously wordnet
  2. 7
    The blame for something. countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article

    "You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap."

  3. 8
    A whit; a jot.

    "I don't care a rap."

  4. 9
    A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. countable, slang

    "We got one maybe ID, but when we checked, we found out the suspect's been in Rikers for a year on a drug rap."

  5. 10
    Initialism of retirement annuity plan. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  6. 11
    a reproach for some lapse or misdeed wordnet
  7. 12
    A casual talk. countable, informal, uncountable

    "Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity."

  8. 13
    Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  9. 14
    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 wordnet
  10. 15
    Rap music. uncountable

    "They like listening to rap."

  11. 16
    voluble conversation wordnet
  12. 17
    A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music. countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    the sound made by a gentle blow wordnet
  14. 19
    An appraisal. Australia, countable, informal, uncountable

    "a good/great/bad rap"

  15. 20
    a gentle blow wordnet
  16. 21
    A positive appraisal; a recommendation. Australia, countable, informal, uncountable

    "He gave the novel quite a rap."

Verb
  1. 1
    To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. intransitive

    "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

  2. 2
    To seize and carry off. transitive
  3. 3
    to rappel
  4. 4
    talk volubly wordnet
  5. 5
    To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. dated, transitive

    "With one great peal they rap the door."

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  1. 6
    To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture. transitive
  2. 7
    strike sharply wordnet
  3. 8
    To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  4. 9
    perform rap music wordnet
  5. 10
    To utter quickly and sharply.

    "The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops."

  6. 11
    make light, repeated taps on a surface wordnet
  7. 12
    To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music. ambitransitive

    "He started to rap after listening to Tupac."

  8. 13
    To talk casually; to engage in conversation. informal, intransitive

    "Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”). Compare Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”). More at rape.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”).

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Etymology 4

Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

Etymology 5

From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).

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