Overview of noun rap

The noun rap has 6 senses

• blame, rap -- (a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap")


• rap, strike, tap -- (a gentle blow)


• pat, rap, tap -- (the sound made by a gentle blow)


• rap -- (voluble conversation)


• rap, rap music, hip-hop -- (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)


• knock, belt, rap, whack, whang -- (the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack")

Overview of verb rap

The verb rap has 4 senses

• rap, knap -- (strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles")


• tap, rap, knock, pink -- (make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently")


• rap -- (perform rap music)


• rap -- (talk volubly)