rap

Meanings

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

Synonyms

belt, blame, hip-hop, knap, knock, pat, pink, rap music, strike, tap, whack, whang