rap

Speech parts

1. rap - Noun

2. rap - Verb

3. rap - Interjection

5. Rap - Proper noun

Meaning

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

To hasten.

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

To exchange; to truck.

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

knock strike tap pat hip-hop belt bang hit beat blame condemn censure denounce slap rebuke
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Antonyms

ode elegy adore tanka answer poem
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Hypernyms

sound perform speak strike talk blow

Hyponyms

knock pitter-patter

Phrases with the word

rap over the knuckles give a rap rap shot aggressive rap not worth a rap take the rap for

Derivatives

rapped rapping rapt

Examples

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again. Jason Mewes

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. Kanye West

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Kurt Cobain

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. Dee Dee Ramone

If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. Russian Proverb

A rap on the ringed finger does not hurt. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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