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rap

(r/&/p )

a reproach for some lapse or misdeed(noun.communication)

Example:
It was a bum rap.

Synonym:
blame

source: wordnet30
a gentle blow(noun.event)

Synonym:
strike, tap

source: wordnet30
the sound made by a gentle blow(noun.event)

Synonym:
pat, tap

source: wordnet30
voluble conversation(noun.communication)

source: wordnet30
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.communication)

Synonym:
hip-hop, rap music

source: wordnet30
the act of hitting vigorously(noun.act)

Synonym:
belt, knock, whack, whang

source: wordnet30
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.(noun)

source: webster1913
A quick, smart blow; a knock.(noun)

source: webster1913
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

strike sharply(verb.contact)

Example:
Rap him on the knuckles.

Synonym:
knap

source: wordnet30
make light, repeated taps on a surface(verb.perception)

Synonym:
knock, pink, tap

source: wordnet30
perform rap music(verb.creation)

source: wordnet30
talk volubly(verb.communication)

source: wordnet30
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.(verb)

source: webster1913
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.(verb)

source: webster1913
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.(verb)

source: webster1913

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