rap
/ɹæp/ noun A2- A sharp blow with something hard.
- The blame for something, a reprimand, censure, or a legal sentence to serve in prison · You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
- A casual talk.
- Rap music. · They like listening to rap.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
Plural raps
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“I suspect no one; death raps at your door—it enters—it goes, not blindfolded, but circumspectly, from room to room.
The curtain, which had risen at the close of the scene with Albert, again fell, and a rap was heard at the door.
Other matches
- rap To strike something sharply with one's knuckles B1
- 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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