rap
/ɹæp/ verb B1- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
- To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- To utter quickly and sharply. · The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
- To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music. · He started to rap after listening to Tupac.· He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
- To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
He/she/it raps · Past rapped · Past participle rapped · -ing form rapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- rap
- He/she/it
- raps
- Past
- rapped
- Past participle
- rapped
- -ing form
- rapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“But surely you will think more of me when you hear the splendid thoughts my new brain is going to turn out.” Then he said good-bye to them all in a cheerful voice and went to the Throne Room, where he rapped upon the door.
Rachel rapped smartly at the kitchen door and stepped in when bidden to do so.
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
The day after this important information had been given to the king’s attorney, a man alighted from a carriage at the corner of the Rue Férou, and rapping at an olive-green door, asked if the Abbé Busoni were within.
Other matches
- rap A sharp blow with something hard. A2
- rap to rappel C2
- rap To seize and carry off. C2
- rap A charge, whether or not it results in a convic... C2
- rap Any of the tokens that passed current for a hal... C2
- rap A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard ... C2
- rap back To return by rappelling.
- rap down To rappel down a mountain.
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