1. Strike sharply
   "rap him on the knuckles";
   - knap [archaic]
    
2. Make light, repeated taps on a surface
   "he was rapping his fingers on the table impatiently";
   - tap, knock, pink
    
3. (music) perform rap music
   "The artist rapped about social issues in his latest album"
    
4. Talk volubly
   "The teenagers rapped about their favourite music"; "She rapped on about her new job for hours"

1. 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
   "The rapper's clever wordplay and hard-hitting beats made his rap music popular among young listeners";
   - rap music, hip-hop
    
2. The act of hitting vigorously
   "he gave the table a rap";
   - knock, belt [informal], whack [informal], whang [informal]
    
3. A gentle blow
   "He gave the door a gentle rap";
   - strike, tap
    
4. The sound made by a gentle blow
   "She heard a soft rap at the window";
   - pat, tap
    
5. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed
   "it was a bum rap";
   - blame
    
6. Voluble conversation
   "They had a long rap about politics over coffee"

Sounds like: rancor, rancour, rr, ra

Derived forms: raps, rapping, rapped

Type of: African-American music, black music, blow, bump, conversation, convo [Austral, informal], go, perform, popular music, popular music genre, reproach, sound, speak, strike, talk

Encyclopedia: Rap