Definitions for Rap

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Rap rap

Spelling: [rap]

IPA: /ræp/

Rap is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Rap (apr).

Definitions for Rap

noun

1. a quick, smart, or light blow:
2. the sound produced by such a blow:
3. Slang. blame or punishment, especially for a crime.
4. Slang. a criminal charge:
5. Slang. response, reception, or judgment:
6. Slang. a talk, conversation, or discussion; chat. talk designed to impress, convince, etc.; spiel:
7. rap music.
8. the least bit:
9. a counterfeit halfpenny formerly passed in Ireland.

Idioms

1. beat the rap, Slang. to succeed in evading the penalty for a crime; be acquitted:
2. take the rap, Slang. to take the blame and punishment for a crime committed by another:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike, especially with a quick, smart, or light blow:
2. to utter sharply or vigorously:
3. (of a spirit summoned by a medium) to communicate (a message) by raps (often followed by out).
4. Slang. to criticize sharply:
5. Slang. to arrest, detain, or sentence for a crime.
6. Metallurgy. to jar (a pattern) loose from a sand mold.
7. to carry off; transport.
8. to transport with rapture.
9. to seize for oneself; snatch.

verb (used without object)

1. to knock smartly or lightly, especially so as to make a noise:
2. Slang. to talk or discuss, especially freely, openly, or volubly; chat.
3. Slang. to talk rhythmically to the beat of rap music.

Origin of Rap

1300-50; 1960-65 for def 8; Middle English rappen (v.), rap(p)e (noun); akin to Swedish rappa to beat, drub, German rappeln to rattle; senses “to talk,” “conversation, talk” perhaps of distin

Examples for Rap

Gervaise now shuffled along in her slippers, without caring a rap for anyone.

They joined forces to form the rap supergroup Run the Jewels.

If Kendrick Lamar is the future of rap, then the future is bright.

There are some consecrated reputations which I wouldn't give a rap for.

I had to rap a second time before Molly Wemple appeared to let me in.

This cd be the kind of thing where somebody has to resign [and] take the rap.

And there are those who still have misgivings about exactly what “Christian rap” means.

Another spends all he can rap and run on his belly, to be the more hungry after it.

Is the art of the Nicki Minaj-style rap something you knew ahead of time that you were a baller at?

It's been a bad year—worse than the last one, which wasn't worth a rap.