1. Strike sharply
   "rap him on the knuckles"
   - knap [archaic] 
2. Make light, repeated taps on a surface
   - tap, knock, pink 
3. Perform rap music 
4. Talk volubly

1. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed
   "it was a bum rap"
   - blame 
2. A gentle blow
   - strike, tap 
3. The sound made by a gentle blow
   - pat, tap 
4. Voluble conversation 
5. 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
   - rap music, hip-hop 
6. The act of hitting vigorously
   - knock, belt, whack, whang

Sounds like: wrap

Derived forms: rapping, rapped, raps

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

Encyclopedia: Rap

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