Definitions of rap:

  • noun:   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
  • noun:   voluble conversation
  • noun:   a gentle blow
  • noun:   a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
    Example: "It was a bum rap"
  • noun:   the sound made by a gentle blow
  • noun:   the act of hitting vigorously
  • verb:   talk volubly
  • verb:   strike sharply
    Example: "Rap him on the knuckles"
  • verb:   perform rap music
  • verb:   make light, repeated taps on a surface