Rap

n.	1.	A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
v. i.	1.	To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (răpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]
v. t.	1.	To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. With one great peal they rap the door. - Prior.
	2.	(Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
n.	1.	A quick, smart blow; a knock.
v. t.	1.	To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (răpt), usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. - Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. - Sir H. Wotton.
	2.	To hasten.
	3.	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. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. - Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. - Pope.
	4.	To exchange; to truck.
	5.	To engage in a discussion, converse.
	6.	to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music. To rap and ren To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. - Dryden. All they could rap and rend and pilfer. - Hudibras. A judge who rapped out a great oath. - Addison.
n.	1.	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. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. - Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. - Mrs. Alexander. Not to care a rap to care nothing. Not worth a rap worth nothing.
	1.	conversation; also, rapping.
	2.	a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

Noun	1.	rap - a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" Synonyms: blame
	2.	rap - a gentle blow Synonyms: tap, strike
	3.	rap - the sound made by a gentle blow Synonyms: pat, tap
	4.	rap - voluble conversation
	5.	rap - 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 Synonyms: rap music, hip-hop
	6.	rap - the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" Synonyms: whang, whack, knock, belt
Verb	1.	rap - strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" Synonyms: knap
	2.	rap - make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" Synonyms: pink, knock, tap
	3.	rap - perform rap music
	4.	rap - talk volubly

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