Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
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	Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
   n. Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke,
   Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.]
   To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
   the door.
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	Rap \Rap\, v. t.
   1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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            With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior.
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   2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on
      the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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	Rap \Rap\, n.
   A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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	Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped (r[a^]pt), usually
   written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin
   to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
   rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
   hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
   Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.]
   1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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            And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
            The whirring chariot.                 --Chapman.
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            From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
            Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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   2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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   3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
      transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
      rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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            I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
                                                  --Addison.
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            Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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   4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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   5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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   6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
      with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
      some as a type of music; see rap music.
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   To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
      to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
      To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
      "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." --Chaucer.
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            All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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   To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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            A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.
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	Rap \Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.]
   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.
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         Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
                                                  --Swift.
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         Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a
         rap, save with her consent.              --Mrs.
                                                  Alexander.
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   Not to care a rap, to care nothing.

   Not worth a rap, worth nothing.
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	Rap \Rap\, n.
   1. conversation; also, rapping.
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   2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with
      accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.
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	rap
     n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for
          it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame]
     2: a gentle blow [syn: strike, tap]
     3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, tap]
     4: voluble conversation
     5: 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 [syn: rap
        music, hip-hop]
     6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
        [syn: knock, belt, whack, whang]
     v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: knap]
     2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
        fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, knock, pink]
     3: perform rap music
     4: talk volubly
     [also: rapping, rapped]

	

	314 Moby Thesaurus words for "rap":
   a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, admonishment,
   admonition, adverse criticism, air, airing, analysis, analyze,
   anathematizing, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press,
   bagatelle, bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, bauble, beak, bean,
   beat, beating, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, blame, blow, bob, bonk,
   brass farthing, brush, buffet, bump, bunt, burst, bust, button,
   buzz session, canvass, canvassing, captiousness, carping, causerie,
   cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cent, chat, chiding,
   chin, chink, chop, chuck, clap, clash, click, clink, clip, clop,
   clout, clump, clunk, colloquium, comment upon, condemn,
   condemnation, confabulation, conference, conk, consider,
   consideration, controvert, conviction, crack, crash, criticism,
   criticize, crump, curio, cut, dab, damnation, dash, deal with,
   death sentence, death warrant, debate, debating, deliberate,
   deliberate upon, deliberation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate,
   denunciation, dialectic, dialogue, dig, dint, discourse about,
   discuss, discussion, doom, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud,
   examination, examine, exception, exchange of views, exchange views,
   excommunication, farce, farthing, faultfinding, feather, fig,
   fillip, flail, flak, flap, fleabite, flick, flip, flirt, flop,
   flump, folderol, forum, fribble, frippery, fusillade, gaud, gewgaw,
   gimcrack, go into, graze, guilty verdict, hair, hairsplitting,
   halfpenny, hammer, handle, hill of beans, hit, home thrust,
   hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation,
   investigate, investigation, jab, jest, joint discussion, joke,
   judgment, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock, knock around,
   lambaste, larrup, lick, logical analysis, logical discussion, maul,
   minikin, mockery, molehill, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit,
   nit-picking, obloquy, open discussion, open forum,
   overcriticalness, pad, pan, panel discussion, pass under review,
   paste, pat, patter, peck, pelt, peppercorn, pestering,
   pettifogging, picayune, pick, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick,
   pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pound,
   priggishness, proscription, prose, pulverize, pummel, punch,
   quibble, quibbling, rap session, reason, reason about,
   reason the point, red cent, reflection, report, reprehend,
   reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, reprobate, reproof, review,
   row of pins, rush, seminar, sentence, shit, sift, skin, slam, slap,
   slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, snap, sneeshing,
   snipe at, sock, sou, spank, splat, straw, stricture, stroke, study,
   swap, swat, swing, swipe, symposium, take up, taking exception,
   talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tap, tattoo, thrash, thresh,
   thresh out, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, touch,
   town meeting, toy, treat, treatment, trichoschistism, trifle,
   trinket, triviality, tunk, tuppence, two cents, twopence,
   ventilate, ventilation, verdict of guilty, wallop, whack, wham,
   whap, whim-wham, whip, whisk, whomp, whop, wig, wipe, yarn, yerk

	

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