5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster] 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low] [1913 Webster] 5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC] 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}. [PJC] {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. [1913 Webster] All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. [1913 Webster] A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: rapping See {rap} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 43 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapping": accents, banging, blasting, bursting, chatter, colloquial discourse, colloquy, comment, communication, communion, conversation, converse, conversing, cracking, crashing, discourse, elocution, exchange, exploding, explosive, flapping, gab, give-and-take, intercourse, interlocution, knocking, language, oral communication, palaver, parole, popping, prattle, slapping, slatting, speaking, speech, talk, talking, tapping, verbal intercourse, words, yakkety-yak, yakking
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